What's the difference between ring and tinkle?

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.

Tinkle


Definition:

  • (n.) The common guillemot.
  • (v. i.) To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
  • (v. i.) To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • (v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
  • (n.) A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
  • (3) The short teaser film, accompanied by that familiar tinkling soundtrack, showed no gameplay footage at all.
  • (4) Nonetheless, this is the first time I think I've seen it framed in such a "female" way and, as we are usually the ones being told not to "leave it too late", I have to admit that I almost cackled (young women have delicate, tinkling laughs, but feminists cackle, obviously).
  • (5) Cycle alongside Lake Shore Drive in the early morning and you will pass black church groups jogging, Asians playing cricket and the tinkling of masts in the marina.
  • (6) I knew I had to rethink everything.” Joining the Royal Court in 1957, he made his London directing debut with NF Simpson ’s A Resounding Tinkle, and scored an early success with John Osborne ’s Epitaph for George Dillon, which transferred to Broadway.
  • (7) His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a Sunday night "without decor" production at the Royal Court.
  • (8) The muses holding up the balcony tittered and the huge chandelier, only just out of reach of Dodd's enormous tickling stick, tinkled with delight.
  • (9) But what other institutions could do with the tinkling of shattering glass?
  • (10) While passengers at Tiburtina, one of Rome’s main train stations and just a 10-minute ride from the Colosseum, tinkled on the station’s piano or stopped off for an ice cream, outside there were more urgent matters at hand.
  • (11) The tinkle of the flagpoles is about the only sound on the tarmac.
  • (12) The first few minutes of tense conversations and snow-shrouded Swedish landscapes are accompanied by wintry drones and tinkling bells.
  • (13) Despite this non-specific lust, he does have a girlfriend of sorts: the grotesque Margaret, whose "tinkle of tiny silver bells" laugh will freeze the heart of any would-be coquette.
  • (14) Inside, Lea and Alice lean on the desk, Magic FM tinkling on the radio.
  • (15) The short-form version of A Resounding Tinkle was this time paired with Gladly Otherwise, in which a furniture inspector asks householders about their absence of floor and is told that it's under the carpet ("making full use of it, I hope?").
  • (16) There are three distinct sounds of broken glass tinkling to the pavement from the shattered window, a small handful of thunks as he falls sideways to the ground, his laboured breathing, the chug of his boot heel finally connecting with the asphalt – even the pads of his fingers as they scrabble along the top of the window.
  • (17) As he bellowed down the phone to the Guardian today it was hard not to notice lounge music tinkling in the background – the soundtrack aboard Green's yacht off the Italian coast where he is entertaining Naomi Campbell and Leonardo DiCaprio this week.
  • (18) An extraordinary impact was rounded off in 1959 when Peter Cook – who owed much of his wild-eyed, raincoated monologist EL Wisty to Simpson – appeared at Cambridge in a student revival of the two-act A Resounding Tinkle, directed by John Bird.
  • (19) Slender cypress trees sway in the warm breeze, as the sound of wind chimes tinkles across the terraces.
  • (20) If you were growing up in the 70s and 80s, you probably moved without loyalty or much discernment between choc ices and Neapolitan blocks at home and a 99 Flake whenever you were in earshot of the melodious tinkling of Greensleeves.