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Ringing

noun

The sound of a bell ringing. Synonyms: ring, tintinnabulation. "The ringing of the telephone" , "The tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"

The giving of a ring as a token of engagement.

Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant. Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy.

Ring

verb

(when related to sound: past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing) (when related to circles: past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)

Sound loudly and sonorously. Synonym: peal.

Ring or echo with sound. Synonyms: echo, resound, reverberate.

Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification. Synonym: knell. "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. Synonyms: call, call up, phone, telephone. "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. Synonyms: border, environ, skirt, surround.

Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify. Synonym: band. "Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"

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"Ringing" Quotes from Famous Books

... like varnish, and a half-inch branch snaps off at the lightest tap. If wind and sun open the day together, the eye cannot look steadily at the splendour of this jewelry. The woods are full of the clatter of arms; the ringing of bucks' horns in flight; the stampede of mailed feet up and down the glades; and a great dust of battle is puffed out into the open, till the last of the ice is beaten away and the cleared branches ...

— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

... made no comment, and Vane, striding down to the beach, sent a hail ringing across the water. Carroll appeared on the sloop's deck and ...

— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... me: you must wait and let me think if I perchance can tell you how it happened. Yea, in my ears is a confused noise of trumpet-blasts singing over desolate moors, in my ears and eyes a clashing and clanging of horse-hoofs, a ringing and glittering of steel; drawn-back lips, set teeth, shouts, ...

— The Hollow Land • William Morris

... of chivalrous intrepidity of the Indian prince, with which all Paris is ringing," said the princess, "must surely have touched ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... afternoon, while Donal was reading to Arctura in the library, there came a loud ringing of the door-bell. Donal ran to see, and to his great delight, there was mistress Brookes, half ...

— Donal Grant • George MacDonald

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