(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.
Wake
Definition:
(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
(n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(2) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(3) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(4) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
(5) In this study, at first, the states of sleep and wakefulness in newborn infants (measured simultaneously by EEG, EOG, respiration and body movement) were compared with their heart rate patterns in rest, active, awake and unclassified phases.
(6) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
(7) Compared to the waking state, sleep was found to be associated with significantly lower levels of acid secretion.
(8) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
(9) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(10) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(11) The aim of this study was determine if functional adaptation of NHP and HB position to these detrimental conditions could be observed, using Bonferonni probabilities, in a cephalometric comparison of 38 SAS adults in the wakeful state and a control group of 38 healthy adults.
(12) The pound was also down more than 1% against the US dollar to $1.2835, not far off a 31-year low hit in the wake of June’s shock referendum result.
(13) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
(14) In a large proportion of these (29 out of 76), blood was noted to be present on waking, menstruation thus having begun at some time during the hours of sleep.
(15) In ANA rats, sleep recordings showed that prenatal alcohol exposure increased the percentage of waking but decreased the percentage of active sleep.
(16) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(17) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(18) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(19) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(20) In order to quantitate the reequency characteristics of the EEG obtained from these subcortical sites (nucleus raphé dorsalis, area postrema, as well as anatomical controls adjacent to these regions) during the different vigilance states (waking, slow-wave sleep, REM sleep) in the cat, power spectral analyses techniques were employed.