1. (Intrans.) Tinter.
2. (Intrans.) Résonner. La cloche sonne.
3. Appeler. Sonner l'huissier.
4. Assommer. Être sonné par une nouvelle.
1. To be discharged or activated
2. To happen in a particular manner; SYN. come off, go over.
3. To stop running, functioning, or operating, as of power.
4. When a gun goes off, it fires. When a bomb goes off, it explodes. When an alarm or alarm clock goes off, it makes a loud noise.
5. When an electrical device or system goes off, it stops operating. Come on is the opposite of go off.
6. When an event or plan goes off well, smoothly, without a problem, or without a hitch (a hitch is a problem), it happens as planned.
7. When a road, trail, path, and so on, goes off, it leaves the main road, trail, or path, and goes in a different direction.
1. To ring loudly; said of bells
2. To sound loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds.
(Homonym: wring).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: rang, rung).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: ringed).
1. To attach a ring to.
2. To make a ringing sound; SYN. peal.
3. To make ring, as of bells etc.; SYN. knell.
ETYM Old Eng. sounen, sownen, Old Fren. soner, suner, French sonner, from Latin sonare. Related to Sound a noise.
1. To make a certain noise or sound; SYN. go.
2. To give off a certain sound or sounds.
3. To cause to sound.
4. To announce by means of a sound.
5. To appear in a certain way.
1. To ring recurrently; of bells; SYN. peal.
2. To ring slowly, of bells.