Crossword clues for ringing
ringing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [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.]
To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
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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.
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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.
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.
Ring \Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]
To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. ``Ring these fingers.''
--Shak.(Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"act of causing a bell to ring; sound made by a bell," 14c., verbal noun from ring (v.1). Meaning "ringing sensation in the ears" is from late 14c.
Wiktionary
1 loud and clear. 2 Made forcefully; powerful. n. 1 The sound of ringing. 2 The quality of being resonant. 3 A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings. v
(present participle of ring English)
WordNet
adj. having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" [syn: reverberant] [ant: unreverberant]
n. 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]
the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]
Wikipedia
Ringing may mean:
- Ringing (signal), unwanted oscillation of a signal, leading to ringing artifacts;
- Ringing (medicine), a ringing sound in the ears;
- Bird ringing, using numbered small metal leg rings to track birds;
- Ringing (telephony), the sound of a telephone bell
- Ringing, ( vehicle), the illegal practice of stealing a vehicle and replacing its identification number with that of another vehicle of the same model which has been a write off.
In electronics, signal processing, and video, ringing is oscillation of a signal, particularly in the step response (the response to a sudden change in input). Often ringing is undesirable, but not always, as in the case of resonant inductive coupling. It is also known as hunting. It is closely related to overshoot, generally occurring following overshoot, and thus the terms are at times conflated.
It is also known as ripple, particularly in electricity or in frequency domain response.
A ringing signal operates a bell or other ringtone generator in a telephone, to alert the user to an incoming telephone call.
In landline telephones, bells or ringtones are rung by impressing a 60 to 105-volt RMS 20-Hertz sine wave across the tip and ring conductors of the subscriber line, in series with the (typically) −48 VDC loop supply. This signal is produced by a ringing generator at the central office.
When the subscriber line is called, a relay on the subscriber line card connects the ringing generator to the subscriber line. The exchange also sends a ringback tone to the calling party. When the called party answers by taking the telephone handset off the switchhook, the subscriber's telephone draws direct current from the central office battery. This current is sensed by the line card and the ringing relay is de-energized.
Usage examples of "ringing".
So there they abode a space looking down on the square and its throng, and the bells, which had been ringing when they came up, now ceased a while.
Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
Chapter Six One evening when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had been watching Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard the Angelus ringing.
Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard the Angelus ringing.
At that moment she came out of the bathroom and he took her place at the bidet, only to hear his phone ringing.
Here, on the conversion of the Birts to Christianity, the sacred rite of baptism was performed by immersion in the waters of the Severn, and when they died, our Edwards, or Ealdwulfs, and their Ethelgifas were laid in the grave to the ringing of the passing bell.
When they came to the foot of the tree where Blinky and Miss Possum were sitting, Percy gave his order in a ringing voice and he looked every inch a soldier, as he stood as stiff as a poker.
He flew toward a Bludger that was flying straight at him and then swung back, grunting loudly, feeling a jolt move through him as he struck it, hearing the ringing sound of metal on metal as one of the iron bands on the bat hit the Bludger.
Even the previous depth charging had been nothing to this black bombinating ringing bedlam, this chaos of life bursting apart.
Skafloc stood in the spray-sheeting bows and sang his warlock song, unhelmed hair flying and ragged byrnie ringing, a shape out of lost sagas and worlds beyond man.
He landed easily, ceramite boots ringing against the hull, and raced forward, hoping to Russ that no one inside the tank had yet realised what was going on.
All at once he started awake, hearing that ringing beat, but he realized he was listening to the chuffing of the griffins.
I could hear the muffled sound of a busy office, typewriters clacketing, phones ringing, voices shouting from one desk to another.
The finale was a combination of wild shouting, banging of the cymbals, ringing and murmuring.
In Cedar Hill, on the dance floor at the country club, there were bodies moving, dancing, men turning, women twirling, a voice singing, music playing, laughter ringing, heat rising.