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Adjective ringing has 1 sense
- reverberant, ringing - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
Noun ringing has 3 senses
- ring, ringing, tintinnabulation - 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
--1 is a kind of sound
--1 has particulars: bell ringing
- ringing - the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
--2 is a kind of betrothal, troth, engagement
- plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
--3 is a kind of timbre, timber, quality, tone
Verb ring has 6 senses
- ring, peal - sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang"
--1 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- resound, echo, ring, reverberate - ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
--2 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentence:
The woods ring with many kinds of birds
- ring, knell - make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
--3 is one way to sound
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
=> Somebody ----s
- surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring - be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
--4 is one way to hold, bear, carry, contain
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- call, telephone, call up, phone, ring - get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
--5 is one way to telecommunicate
Sample sentences:
Sam cannot ring Sue
They ring
- ring, band - attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"
--6 is one way to attach
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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