Word Meanings - RING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. 2. To make , 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,
Additional info about word: RING
1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. 2. To make , 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RING)
- Enclosure
- Fence
- ring
- limit
- boundary
- park
- close
- circle
- field
- precinct
- Intonation
- Melody
- accentuation
- resonance
- Resound
- Ring
- reverberate
- echo
- re-echo
- respond
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RING)
Related words: (words related to RING)
- FENCE MONTH
the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or - FIELD
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - CIRCLED
Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak. - RESOUND
resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - RESPOND
1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - FENCER
One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak. - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - ENCLOSURE
Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure. - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - PROTRACTIVE
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden. - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - LIMITARY
1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey. - FENCEFUL
Affording defense; defensive. Congreve. - CIRCLE
An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - DEFENCE
See DEFENSE - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field.