ring inとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

ring in (三人称単数 現在形 rings in, 現在分詞 ringing in, 過去形 rang in, 過去分詞 rung in)

1. To make a phone call to (this place).

   John has just rung in sick. He won't be back til 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.

同意語

• call in

動詞

ring in (三人称単数 現在形 rings in, 現在分詞 ringing in, 過去形および過去分詞形 ringed in)

1. (transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     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.

   • 1888, Kipling, False Dawn:

     All the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Saumarez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark; and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie in my hands.

   • 1936, Robert Howard, Graveyard Rats:

     He was ringed in on all sides by a solid circle of gleaming red sparks that shone from the grass. Held back by their fear, the graveyard rats surrounded him, squealing their hate.

アナグラム

• nigrin, rining