ringing meaning

• Noun: ringing  ringing
  1. The sound of a bell ringing
     "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"
     - ring, 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
     - plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy
  Verb: ring (rang,rung)  ring
  1. Sound loudly and sonorously
     "the bells rang"
     - peal 
  2. Ring or echo with sound
     - resound, echo, reverberate 
  3. Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
     "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
     - knell, knoll [archaic] 
  4. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
     - call, telephone, call up, phone 
  5. Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
     - surround, environ, skirt, border 
  6. Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
     "ring birds"
     - band

  Sounds like: wringing

  Derived forms: ringings

  See also: ring out, ringer

  Type of: adjoin, attach, betrothal, contact, engagement, go, meet, quality, sound, telecommunicate, timber, timbre, tone, touch, troth

  Encyclopedia: Ring Ring, Christmas Bells Ring, County Waterford

  Ringing

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  [Electronics]
  Self oscillation in a pulsed inductance-capacitance circuit, sustained by the circuit’s flywheel action (hysteresis), and usually producing a damped wave.
  

• bell ringing:    Noun: bell ringing ...
• change ringing:    Noun: change ringi ...
• change-ringing:     see ring the chan ...

Examples

1. the words are still ringing [reverberating] in one 's ears.
2. who can be ringing us at this late hour?
3. oh, the alarm clock is ringing . i am still very sleepy.
4. i tried to wake up my wife by ringing the door-bell.
5. the lights diminished but the ringing persisted.