Difference between Tintinnabulation and Ring

What is the difference between Tintinnabulation and Ring?

Tintinnabulation as a noun is a tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass. while Ring as a noun is a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

Tintinnabulation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.

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 ringA 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: I've always known that I wanted to be different. I wanted to stand out, so my gear is very elaborate, very blingy, very loud, because I want people to notice me, want to look like me. The Boss necklace, the ring. I want everything big.

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

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