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RING DOWN

Specialty Definition: RING DOWN

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Ring Down Conclude, end at once. A theatrical phrase, alluding to the custom of ringing a bell to give notice for the fall of the curtain. Charles Dickens says, "It is time to ring down on these remarks." (Speech at the Dramatic Fête.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: RING DOWN

Expressions using "RING DOWN": automatic ring down ring down the curtain ring down the curtain on smth.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RING DOWN

Language Translations for "RING DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hotline (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

automatisch bellen (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

automaattinen soittosarja (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

French

  

sonnerie automatique (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

German

  

einen schlussstrich unter etw. ziehen (ring down the curtain on smth.), automatische Signalvermittlung (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θερμή γραμμή σηματοδοσίας (automatic ring down), ARD (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leereszti a függönyt (to ring down the curtain). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhig neose (let down). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingray ownday

   

Portuguese

  

toque automático em linha privada (automatic ring down). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

perdeyi kapamak (draw the curtain, ring down the curtain), perdeyi kapama işareti vermek (ring down the curtain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RING DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: drowning.

Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-r-w"

-1 letter: downing, droning, ingrown, wording.

-2 letters: dowing, owning, rowing.

-3 letters: dingo, doing, drown, giron, grind, groin, grown, indow, owing, wring, wrong.

-4 letters: ding, dong, down, gird, girn, giro, gowd, gown, grid, grin, grow, inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, rind, ring, wind, wing, wino, word, worn.

-5 letters: dig, din, dog, don, dor, dow, gid, gin, god, gor.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-n-o-r-w"
 

+1 letter: bringdown, drownding, drownings, wondering.

 

+2 letters: bringdowns, decrowning, reendowing, windrowing, wrongdoing.

 

+3 letters: discrowning, downgrading, overwinding, wrongdoings.

 

+4 letters: snowboarding.

 

+5 letters: downrightness, snowboardings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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