Meaning of ring in | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make a phone call to (this place).
2. To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
   transitive
3. To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.”

“We will ring⟳ in the New Year at a ski resort.”

“T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider⟳ how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in.”

“Attend⟳ now, my braves. I have⟳ mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand⟳ there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring⟳ me in, that I may in some sort⟳ revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.”

“All the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Saumarez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark; and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie⟳ in my hands.”

“He was ringed in on all sides by a solid circle of gleaming red sparks that shone from the grass. Held back by their fear, the graveyard rats surrounded him, squealing their hate⟳.”

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