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bring
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v 1: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring
me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the
boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring,
convey, take]
2: cause to come into a particular state or condition; "Long
hard years of on the job training had brought them to their
competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"
3: cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work
a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke";
"The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" [syn:
bring, work, play, wreak, make for]
4: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books
over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog
fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch]
[ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off,
take away]
5: bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
[syn: bring, land]
6: be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?"
7: advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute
proceedings" [syn: institute, bring]
8: bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to
the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She
brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a
light note to the program" [syn: lend, impart, bestow,
contribute, add, bring]
9: be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000";
"The old print fetched a high price at the auction" [syn:
fetch, bring in, bring]
10: attract the attention of; "The noise and the screaming
brought the curious"
11: induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused
brought the others to admit to the crime as well"
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cling
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n 1: fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to
the pit [syn: cling, clingstone]
v 1: come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together
and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The
label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
[syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere]
2: to remain emotionally or intellectually attached; "He clings
to the idea that she might still love him."
3: hold on tightly or tenaciously; "hang on to your father's
hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron" [syn:
cling, hang]
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ring
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n 1: a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity"
2: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of
smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor
ring]
3: a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used
for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was
still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" [syn: hoop,
ring]
4: (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a
closed loop [syn: closed chain, ring] [ant: open chain]
5: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring,
mob]
6: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing
and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ring,
ringing, tintinnabulation]
7: a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants
box or wrestle
8: jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set
with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every
finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" [syn:
ring, band]
9: a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify
it (as in studies of bird migration) [syn: band, ring]
v 1: sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang" [syn: ring,
peal]
2: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
[syn: resound, echo, ring, reverberate]
3: make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical
edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday
at the local church" [syn: ring, knell]
4: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by
telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin
and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call
up, phone, ring]
5: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest
surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring,
skirt, border]
6: attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring
birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"
[syn: ring, band]
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thing
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n 1: a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a
remarkable thing"
2: an action; "how could you do such a thing?"
3: a special abstraction; "a thing of the spirit"; "things of
the heart"
4: an artifact; "how does this thing work?"
5: an event; "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
6: a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to";
"it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" [syn:
matter, affair, thing]
7: a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in
other terms"; "how can you say such a thing?"
8: an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell
what the thing was"
9: any attribute or quality considered as having its own
existence; "the thing I like about her is ..."
10: a special objective; "the thing is to stay in bounds"
11: a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "he
has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him"
12: a separate and self-contained entity
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ting
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n 1: a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell [syn:
ting, tinkle]
v 1: cause to make a ting
2: make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'
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wring
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n 1: a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring" [syn:
squeeze, wring]
v 1: twist and press out of shape [syn: contort, deform,
distort, wring]
2: twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's
hand" [syn: wring, wrench]
3: obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from
the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the
company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the
business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze,
rack, gouge, wring]
4: twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid;
"wring the towels"
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zing
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n 1: a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound; "the zing of
the passing bullet"
2: the activeness of an energetic personality [syn: dynamism,
pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing]
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ming
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n 1: the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 [syn:
Ming, Ming dynasty]
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ng
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n 1: one billionth (1/1,000,000,000) gram [syn: nanogram,
ng]
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beijing
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n 1: capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei
province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
[syn: Beijing, Peking, Peiping, capital of Red
China]
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chongqing
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n 1: a city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang; a
commercial center for western China [syn: Chongqing,
Chungking]
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qing
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n 1: the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912)
which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during the Qing
dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu [syn: Qing, Qing
dynasty, Ch'ing, Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu, Manchu
dynasty]
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upswing
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bing
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singh
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xing
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dring
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gring
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kling
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kring
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pring
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schwing
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qingming
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unring
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xiaoping
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yenching
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ching
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ging
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hing
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jing
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lyng
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ning
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shing
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ying
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ringe
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