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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RING'ING, ppr. Causing to sound, as a bell; sounding; fitting with rings.
RING'ING, n. The act of sounding or of causing to sound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 [syn: ring, ringing, tintinnabulation]
2: the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
3: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. clear and full in tone ; resounding <a ringing baritone> 2. vigorously unequivocal ; decisive <a ringing condemnation of immorality> • ringingly adverb

Webster's 1913 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.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. ``Ring these fingers.'' --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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A ringing sound is loud and can be heard very clearly. He hit the metal steps with a ringing crash. = resounding ADJ: ADJ n 2. A ringing statement or declaration is one that is made forcefully and is intended to make a powerful impression. ...the party's 14th Congress, which gave a ringing endorsement to capitalist-style economic reforms. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

booming, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, consonant, deafening, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, orotund, peal, peal ringing, pealing, piercing, plangent, resounding, ring, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thunderous, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling, tonitruant, tonitruous, vibrant, window-rattling