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ring in

ring in verb: to make a phone call to (this place).

Verb (1)

ring in (third-person singular simple present rings in, present participle ringing in, simple past rang in, past participle rung in)

  1. To make a phone call to (this place).
    • John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.
  2. (transitive) To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
    • We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.
    Synonyms:
    call in

Verb (2)

ring in (third-person singular simple present rings in, present participle ringing in, simple past and past participle ringed in)

  1. (transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
    • 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.1814, [Leigh Hunt], “The Feast of the Poets”, in The Feast of the Poets, […], London: […] [Carew Henry Reynell] for James Cawthorn, […], →OCLC, page 1
    • 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

ring in meaning in Tamil

ring in in Tamil

உள்ளே அழைத்து வா

Synonyms of ring in

Forms of ring in

third-person singular presentrings in
present participleringing in
pastrang in
past participlerung in
past participleringed in
pastringed in

Questions about ring in

What does ring in mean?
Ring in means to make a phone call to (this place).
What is ring in in Tamil?
Ring in in Tamil is உள்ளே அழைத்து வா. See Ring in meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ring in?
Ring in is a verb.
What is the past tense of ring in?
The past tense of ring in is rang in.

Words near ring in in the dictionary

  1. ring girl
  2. ring girls
  3. ring hollow
  4. ring homomorphism
  5. ring homomorphisms
  6. ring in
  7. ring in one's nose
  8. ring isomorphism
  9. ring isomorphisms
  10. ring job
  11. ring jobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ring in (page history and authors); ring in (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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