Ringing

a & n.

1.

a & n. from Ring, v. Ringing engine a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.

Noun	1.	ringing - 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 Synonyms: tintinnabulation, ring
	2.	ringing - the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
	3.	ringing - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant Synonyms: reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy, plangency, resonance
Adj.	1.	ringing - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" Synonyms: reverberant

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

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