ringing


ringing (http://definr.com/ringing)

     adj : having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected;
           "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
           [syn: reverberant] [ant: unreverberant]
     n 1: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
          church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
          tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the
          ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ring,
           tintinnabulation]
     2: the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
     3: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of
        being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance,
         sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]