Ringing

Ringing may mean:

  • Ringing (signal), unwanted oscillation of a signal, leading to ringing artifacts;
  • Ringing (medicine), a ringing sound in the ears;
  • Bird ringing, using numbered small metal leg rings to track birds;
  • Ringing (telephony), the sound of a telephone bell
  • Ringing, (vehicle), the illegal practice of stealing a vehicle and replacing its identification number with that of another vehicle of the same model which has been a write off.

Famous quotes containing the word ringing:

    “If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)