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rings in

rings in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ring in.

Meaning of ring in

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

Questions about rings in

What is rings in the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rings in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ring in.

Words near rings in in the dictionary

  1. rings around
  2. rings back
  3. rings down the curtain
  4. rings false
  5. rings hollow
  6. rings in
  7. rings of bells
  8. rings of fractions
  9. rings of polynomials
  10. rings of steel
  11. rings of the fisherman

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