Difference between Ring and Reverberate

What is the difference between Ring and Reverberate?

Ring as a verb is to surround or enclose. while Reverberate as a verb is to ring with many echos

Ring

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To surround or enclose. To make an incision around; to girdle. To attach a ring to, especially for identification. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound. To make a (church) bell produce sound. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound. To telephone someone. to resound, reverberate, echo

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration. A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ring A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet. A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter. An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter. a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as w:Stonehenge. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. A pleasant or correct sound. A telephone call. An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is an abelian group under addition and a monoid under multiplication. An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under multiplication, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

Example sentence: The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Reverberate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to ring with many echosto have a lasting effectto repeatedly returnto rebound or recoilto shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

We hope you now know whether to use Ring or Reverberate in your sentence.

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