ring·ing /ˈrɪŋɪŋ/
 (a.)響亮的,迴響的,清脆的,乾脆的,強烈的鈴聲,響聲


 ringing
 振鈴


 Ring v. t. [imp. Rang or Rung p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]
 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 To ring 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.


 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.”
 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.


 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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 ringing
      adj : having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected;
            "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
            [syn: reverberant] [ant: unreverberant]
      n 1: 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 [syn: 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 [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance,
          sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]