RING

band, ring

(noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

hoop, ring

(noun) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; “there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse”

ring, band

(noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; “she had rings on every finger”; “he noted that she wore a wedding band”

ring

(noun) a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle

ring

(noun) a characteristic sound; “it has the ring of sincerity”

ring, ringing, tintinnabulation

(noun) the sound of a bell ringing; “the distinctive ring of the church bell”; “the ringing of the telephone”; “the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells”--E. A. Poe

gang, pack, ring, mob

(noun) an association of criminals; “police tried to break up the gang”; “a pack of thieves”

ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring

(noun) a toroidal shape; “a ring of ships in the harbor”; “a halo of smoke”

call, telephone, call up, phone, ring

(verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; “I tried to call you all night”; “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning”

ring, band

(verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; “ring birds”; “band the geese to observe their migratory patterns”

surround, environ, ring, skirt, border

(verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; “The forest surrounds my property”

ring, peal

(verb) sound loudly and sonorously; “the bells rang”

ring, knell

(verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; “Ring the bells”; “My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church”

resound, echo, ring, reverberate

(verb) ring or echo with sound; “the hall resounded with laughter”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Ring

A surname for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.

A parish in Waterford, Ireland.

Anagrams

• NGRI, girn, grin

Etymology 1

Noun

ring (plural rings)

(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.

A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus

A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

(British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

(UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.

In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

(historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

(botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.

(physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.

A circular group of people or objects.

(astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.

(British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

(chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

(geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

(typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

(historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

(computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

(firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

(cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

(transitive) To enclose or surround.

(transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.

(transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

(transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

(transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

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Etymology 2

Noun

ring (plural rings)

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

(figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

(colloquial) A telephone call.

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past (nonstandard) rung or rang, past participle rung)

(intransitive) Of a bell, etc, to produce a resonant sound.

(transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

(transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.

(intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

(intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

(transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

(intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.

(intransitive) To produce music with bells.

(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Etymology 3

Noun

ring (plural rings)

(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

The set of integers, $$\mathbb{Z}$$ , is the prototypical ring.

(algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set $$2\mathbb{Z}$$ of even integers to be a ring.

Hypernyms

• pseudo-ring

• semiring

Hyponyms

• algebra over a field

• commutative ring

integral domain

unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain

principal ideal domain

Euclidean domain

field

Meronyms

• group of units

• ideal

Anagrams

• NGRI, girn, grin

Source: Wiktionary

Ring, v. t. [imp. Rang or Rung (; p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] Etym: [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. sq. root19.]

1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound. The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. Shak.

3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.

– To ring the changes upon. See under Change.

– To ring in or out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson.

– To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. Sir W. Scott.

Ring, v. i.

1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer. Why ring not out the bells Shak.

2. To practice making music with bells. Holder.

3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. Pope. The hall with harp and carol rang. Tennyson. My ears still ring with noise. Dryden.

4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. The assertion is still ringing in our ears. Burke.

5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

Ring, n.

1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. Bacon

3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world. Fuller.

Ring, n. Etym: [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G. ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf. Russ. krug'. Cf. Harangue, Rank a row,Rink.]

Definition: A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. Shak.

3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena. Place me. O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contened for glory. E. Smith.

4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. "The road was an institution, the ring was an institution." Thackeray.

5. A circular group of persons. And hears the Muses in a Aye round about Jove's alter sing. Milton.

6. (Geom.) (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.

7. (Astron. & Navigation)

Definition: An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

8. (Bot.)

Definition: An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc. The ruling ring at Constantinople. E. A. Freeman. Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under Chain.

– Ring blackbird (Zoöl.), the ring ousel.

– Ring canal (Zoöl.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.

– Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster.

– Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless.

– Ring fence. See under Fence.

– Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage.

– Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under Benzene.

– Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth.

– Ring micrometer. (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under Micrometer.

– Saturn's rings. See Saturn.

– Ring ousel. (Zoöl.) See Ousel.

– Ring parrot (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and P. Alexandri of Java.

– Ring plover. (Zoöl.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata).

– Ring snake (Zoöl.), a small harmless American snake (Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash- colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red.

– Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper.

– Ring thrush (Zoöl.), the ring ousel.

– The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively.

– The ring. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.

Ring, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]

1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. "Ring these fingers." Shak.

2. (Hort.)

Definition: To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

Ring, v. i. (Falconry)

Definition: To rise in the air spirally.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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