Step on a ladder

noun

1. A rounded crosspiece between the legs of a chair
2. One of the crosspieces of a ladder
3. A heavy staff or cudgel
4. A spoke of a wheel
5. A level in a hierarchy

   "rise a few rungs on the social scale"

verb

1. To sound resonantly or sonorously

   "the doorbell rang"

2. To be filled with a reverberating sound resound

   "the halls rang with laughter"

3. To have the sensation of being filled with a humming sound

   "his ears rang"

4. To cause something to ring

   "ring for the butler"

5. To be filled with talk or report

   "the whole land rang with her fame"

6. To have great renown
7. To sound repetitiously

   "their praise rang in his ears"

8. To have a sound or character expressive of some quality

   "a story that rings true"

9. To make a telephone call
10. To cause to sound especially by striking
11. To make (a sound) by or as if by ringing a bell
12. To announce by or as if by ringing
13. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly
14. To summon especially by bell
15. Telephone

noun

1. A hollow metallic device that gives off a reverberating sound when struck
2. Doorbell
3. The sounding of a bell as a signal
4. A stroke of a bell (as on shipboard) to indicate the time
5. A half hour period of a watch on shipboard indicated by the strokes of a bell see Ship's Bells Table
6. The corolla of a flower
7. A bell-shaped organ or part (such as the dewlap of a moose)
8. The part of the capital of a column between the abacus and neck molding
9. The flared end of a wind instrument
10. The open mouth of a nozzle (such as of the exhaust of a jet engine)

    "The heating was so intense … that the gas went rushing out the tail of the engine at 30,000 feet per second, or twice the speed at which exhaust leaves the bell of a conventional engine."

11. A percussion instrument consisting of metal bars or tubes that when struck give out tones resembling bells
12. Glockenspiel

verb

1. Hang up

verb

1. To total and record especially by means of a cash register

   "ring up a sale"

2. Achieve

   "rang up many social triumphs"

phrasal verb

1. To celebrate the beginning of (something, such as a new year)

   "How did you ring in the new millennium?"

2. To make a telephone call to a place (such as the place where one works)

   "She was feeling too ill to go to the office yesterday so she rang in sick."

3. To make a telephone call to a radio or television program

   "Thousands of people rang in to make a donation."

phrasal verb

1. To be heard loudly and clearly

   "A shot rang out."