Meaning of RINGING
| Pronunciation: | | r'inging
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- [n] having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- [n] the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
- [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
- [adj] having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
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| | Synonyms: | | bright, brilliant, clinking, echoing(a), hollow, jingling, jingly, live(a), plangency, reechoing, resonance, resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberance, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ring, rolling, sonority, sonorousness, tinkling, tinkly, tintinnabulation, vibrancy |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonresonant, unreverberant | | |
| | See Also: | | bell ringing, betrothal, engagement, quality, sound, timber, timbre, tone, troth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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