(n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
(n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
(v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
(v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.
(v. t.) To pour out.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the promise of a new set starting at midnight, his third of the night, I arrive around 11pm to hear him still in full flow, vein-popping saxophone pealing out into Mornington Crescent.
(2) Black smoke rising from the chapel's chimney signifies an inconclusive vote (traditionally damp straw was added to make the smoke black but a chemical compound is now used instead); white smoke – and the pealing of the basilica's bell to avoid any confusion about the colour of the smoke – means that a new pope has been elected.
(3) Of a sudden from the belfry in the square there broke out again a wild midnight peal of bells.
(4) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
(5) The peals of laughter that greeted this piece of deadpannery were perhaps indicative of the committee's eagerness to put its guest at his ease.
(6) In patients with myocardial infarction there was good correlation between the minimum plasma zinc level and the peal value of plasma enzymes, and also with some clinical estimators of prognosis.
(7) Furthermore, both the size and number of cells recovered in fractions 7 to 11 (which include the modal peal volume of unseparated hepatocytes) were increased.
(8) I ask you – would the Germans discriminate against our bicycles, if they thought we would discriminate against their BMWs?” he asked, to peals of laughter.
(9) The clang of an approaching train's warning to pedestrians to get off the open tracks has become part of the city's soundtrack, along with the constant honking of car horns, the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, the occasional peal of church bells and the Friday afternoon siren that marks the start of the Jewish sabbath.
(10) Websites have been constructed; commemorative gold coins and stamps are to be issued; a peal of bells will ring from churches; a series of lectures around the world, starting with one by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, will emphasise the document’s enduring importance; the British Library will host the largest exhibition in its history; special songs and poems will be performed; Magna Carta will even get its own display at the Notting Hill carnival.
(11) Ectoparasite records are presented for four species of commensal murid rodents (Rattus rattus palelae Miller & Hollister, R. argentiventer (Robinson & Kloss), R. exulans (Peale) and Mus musculus castaneus Waterhouse) in Sulawesi Utara, with particular reference to the potential for these arthropods to bite and transmit pathogens to humans.
(12) 2.57pm BST Bells have started pealing as the planes slowly come to a halt near assembled mourners.
(13) A little light relief amid the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61-year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM "justified" before changing it to "unjustified" after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.
(14) He is more obviously shy than Koenig – they met during a production of Romeo and Juliet at Columbia – but he has a ready grin and emits little peals of laughter at unexpected moments during our conversation.
(15) One man, carrying a large German flag which flaps in the wind, is heard greeting his friends with “Heil Deutschland” to be met by peals of laughter.
(16) Its peal will be answered by the bells of churches all along the river and theirs, in turn, echoed by others up and down the land.
(17) Her laughter is the only kind I've ever heard that actually deserves the word "peals": she reels in her seat with it.
(18) Band-pass was set up between 1 and 125 Hz and latencies and amplitudes were studied for both types of evoked responses, PEATs and PEALs.
(19) Linearity in the intrinsic and radiation sensitized response of the 280 degree C TL peal for both pellet and powder forms has been studied with regard to ultraviolet dosimetry over the range 10(-2) to 5 x 10(4) mJ cm-2.
(20) A little light relief amidst the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61 year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM “justified” before changing it to “unjustified” after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.
Ring
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
(v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
(v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
(v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
(v. i.) To practice making music with bells.
(v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
(v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
(v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
(n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
(n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
(n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
(n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
(n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
(n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
(n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.
(n.) A circular group of persons.
(n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
(n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
(n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
(n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
(n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
(v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
(v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
(v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
(v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(2) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(3) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
(4) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(5) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(6) These results coupled with previous studies support activation of benz[j]aceanthrylene via both 2 and cyclopenta ring epoxidation.
(7) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
(8) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(9) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.
(10) The intracellular distribution and interaction of 19S ring-type particles from D. melanogaster have been analysed.
(11) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(12) In all cases Richter's hernia was at the internal inguinal ring.
(13) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
(14) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(15) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(16) A new analog of salmon calcitonin (N alpha-propionyl Di-Ala1,7,des-Leu19 sCT; RG-12851; here termed CTR), which lacks the ring structure of native calcitonin, was tested for biological activity in several in vitro and in vivo assay systems.
(17) The chemical shift changes observed on the binding of trimethoprim to dihydrofolate reductase are interpreted in terms of the ring-current shift contributions from the two aromatic rings of trimethoprim and from that of phenylalanine-30.
(18) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(19) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
(20) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.