From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), verb (used with an object) [imp. {Rang} (r[a^]ng) or {Rung} (r[u^]ng); p. p. {Rung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ringing}.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.]
1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. --Shak.
3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
{To ring a peal}, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
{To ring the changes upon}. See under {Change}.
{To ring in} or {To ring out}, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. --Tennyson.
{To ring the bells backward}, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ringing \Ring"ing\, a & n. from {Ring}, v.
{Ringing engine}, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ring \Ring\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ringing}.]
1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. ''Ring these fingers.'' --Shak.
2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" [syn: {reverberant}] [ant: {unreverberant}]
noun
1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: {ring}, {tintinnabulation}]
2: the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
3: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: {plangency}, {resonance}, {reverberance}, {sonorousness}, {sonority}, {vibrancy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "ringing": booming, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, consonant, deafening, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, orotund, peal, peal ringing, pealing, piercing, plangent, resounding, ring, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thunderous, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling, tonitruant, tonitruous, vibrant, window-rattling
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