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ringer (RING uhr) (noun)
1. Something or someone who causes a sound, especially one that produces a chime: Adam is the ringer of the cathedral bells that we hear every morning.
2. Someone who looks very much like another person: Philip is a ringer for the president.
2. Someone who looks very much like another person: Philip is a ringer for the president.
Cara is a dead ringer for Trisha's friend Carol.
wringer (RING uhr) (noun)
Someone or something that compresses, especially a device in which laundry is squeezed between rollers to extract water: The old-fashioned washing machines had a handwringer to press the moisture from the clothes before they were hung up to dry.
Jeff was surprised that Mrs. Smith was such a ringer for the woman who used to come to help his mother operate the wringer on her washing machine.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group R; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“ringer”
A likeness or exact image of one dog to another; the close resemblance to another dog: The resemblance of Mrs. Clark's dog to Mary's dog was so identical, it was a real ringer, or a dead ringer!
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Dog or Canine Terms +
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