intransitive. (In Old English and Middle English) To sound, ring with sound, resound. Obsolete.

intransitive. To sound, make a sound, resound.

Of things: to make or emit a sound.

With reference to sound. intransitive. Of a bell, etc.: to be sounded as a signal or alarm. In later use also of a telephone or other device: to…

transferred. Of musical instruments, etc.: To emit a sound; spec. to utter a full and proper note. Chiefly rhetorical or technical.

figurative. Of inanimate things: To make sounds or noises resembling or suggesting speech. spec., of an anchor which is dragged (see drag, v. 1c).

intransitive. Of an alarm, etc.: to be set off; to sound. Also in figurative context.