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Ring out
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- 1 A win in a fighting game obtained by throwing one's opponent out of the arena.
"Even when Heihachi doesn't score a ring out with these combos, almost half of an enemy's health disappears […]"
- 1 To sound clearly and loudly.
"Suddenly, a shot rang out and someone screamed."
- 2 To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning. ambitransitive
- 3 sound loudly wordnet
- 4 To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
"You can ring out if you dial 9 first and wait for the tone before dialling the number."
- 5 To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
"The objective of ringing-out a system is (believe it or not) to get as many frequencies as possible to ring at the same time as the system goes past its gain-before-feedback limit."
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- 6 To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
"By section 7 a penalty is provided for any “ringing out” of contracts for future delivery."
Etymology
From ring (verb) + out (adverb).
Calque of Japanese リングアウト (ringu auto), equivalent to English ring (noun) + out (verb)
Calque of Japanese リングアウト (ringu auto), equivalent to English ring (noun) + out (verb)
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