ringing
铃声,电话铃声,响铃,电话铃响了
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Definitions
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- : a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- : anything having the form of such a band: a napkin ring;a smoke ring.
- : a circular or surrounding line or mark: dark rings around the eyes.
- : a circular course: to dance in a ring.
- : a number of people or things situated in a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement: a ring of stones;a ring of hills.
- : the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim.
- : an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition: a circus ring.
- : a bullring.
- : an enclosure in which boxing and wrestling matches take place, usually consisting of a square, canvas-covered platform with surrounding ropes that are supported at each corner by posts.
- : the sport of boxing; prizefighting: the heyday of the ring.
- : an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets.
- : a group of people cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law: a ring of dope smugglers.
- : a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course.
- : Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles.
- : annual ring.
- : a circle of bark cut from around a tree.
- : Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form.Compare chain.
- : Architecture. rowlock.
- : a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured.
- : Also called spinning ring. Textiles. a circular track of highly polished steel on which the traveler moves and which imparts twists to the yarn by variations in its vertical movement.
- : Also called ring gauge . a unit of measurement of the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch.
- : Automotive, Machinery. piston ring.
- : Mathematics. a set that is closed under the operations of addition and multiplication and that is an Abelian group with respect to addition and an associative semigroup with respect to multiplication and in which the distributive laws relating the two operations hold.
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ringed, ring·ing.
- : to surround with a ring; encircle: The lake is ringed with forest and farmland.
- : to form into a ring.
- : to insert a ring through the nose of.
- : to hem in by riding or circling about them: The cowboys ringed the cattle they would be driving to market.
- : to girdle.
- : to encircle with a ring, horseshoe, etc.
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ringed, ring·ing.
- : to form a ring or rings.
- : to move in a ring or a constantly curving course: The road rings around the mountain.
Phrases
- ring a bell
- ring down the curtain on
- ring false
- ring one's chimes
- ringside seat
- ring the changes
- ring true
- ring up
- brass ring
- give someone a ring
- have a familiar ring
- run rings around
- three-ring circus
- throw one's hat in the ring
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Claim victory over the roughly 6-inch-tall Oliver String by removing the center ring.
When they offered the opportunity to help, I knew I had to throw my hat in the ring.
So for the immediate future, it seems that no matter what happens, we don’t have to worry about the supply of burgers, fries, onion rings, chicken wings, and the like running out.
The ring, which measures 80 feet in diameter, was based on medieval manuscript drawings and constructed out of seven tons of Delaware River rock.
Harrison FaceTimes the show’s signature jeweler so he can have a ring ready as soon as possible.
A ban on the ringing of church bells, lifted in 1941, was reimposed.
When the ship hit the rocks, the sound of bells ringing and alarms sounding echoed in the theater.
I walked home alone, in the dark, all the unseen voices of that evening still ringing in my ears.
Democrats faired marginally better in the study, ringing in at 31 percent.
Their latest item may not reach that level of excitement or controversy—but the phone has indeed been ringing.
All the time there was a tremendous beating of drums and blowing of horns and ringing of bells.
She rose impatiently and bathed her eyes before ringing for the maid to lace her for dinner—it was long past tea-time.
The Stradiuarius—of similar quality, greatly increased in body and of a more ringing bell-like character.
The woods were ringing with their music, and the sound of the chase swung to and fro, from ridge to ridge.
There was the whistle of a railway train somewhere in the distance, and the midnight bells were ringing.