ringing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ringing	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for ringing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ringing n the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe Synonym(s): ring, ringing, tintinnabulation the giving of a ring as a token of engagement having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant Synonym(s): plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ring \Ring\ (r[icr]ng), v. t. [imp. {Rang} (r[acr]ng) or {Rung} (r[ucr]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] {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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ring \Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ringing}.] 1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. [bd]Ring these fingers.[b8] --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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.