rings out

Verb (1)

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

1. To sound clearly and loudly.
   • Suddenly, a shot rang out and someone screamed.
2. To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
   • You can ring out if you dial 9 first and wait for the tone before dialling the number.
3. (sound engineering) To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
   • The objective of ringing-out a system is (believe it or not) to get as many frequencies as possible to ring at the same time as the system goes past its gain-before-feedback limit.1996, Scott Hunter Stark, Live Sound Reinforcement, page 110
4. To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
   • By section 7 a penalty is provided for any “ringing out” of contracts for future delivery.1894, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Fifty-Third Congress, Second Session (volume 26, part 7, page 6484)

Verb (2)

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

1. (ambitransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.

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