ring

Plural: rings

Noun

• a characteristic sound
  • "it has the ring of sincerity"
• a toroidal shape
  • "a ring of ships in the harbor"
• a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
• (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
• an association of criminals
• the sound of a bell ringing; ; ; --E. A. Poe
  • "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"
• a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
• jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
  • "she had rings on every finger"
• a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
• 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.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• A burner on a kitchen stove.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• 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.
• A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
• A group of objects arranged in a circle.
• A circular group of people or objects.
• A group of objects arranged in a circle.
• A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
• A group of objects arranged in a circle.
• A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
• A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
• Ellipsis of webring.
• 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.
• 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.
• The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
• An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
• A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
• A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
• A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
• An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
• A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
• Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
• The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
• A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
• The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
• A pleasant or correct sound.
• A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
• A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.

Verb

Verb Forms: ringed, ringing, rings, rang, rung

• To produce a clear, resonant sound, like a bell.
• To form a circle or circular band around something.
• sound loudly and sonorously
• ring or echo with sound
• make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
  • "Ring the bells"
  • "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
• extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
• attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
  • "ring birds"
• To enclose or surround.
• To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
• To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
• To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
• To rise in the air spirally.
• To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
• To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
• Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
• To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
• To produce (a sound) by ringing.
• To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
• Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
• To telephone (someone).
• to resound, reverberate, echo.
• To produce music with bells.
• To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
• To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Examples

• a benzene ring
• a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
• a ring of grime around the bathtub
• a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
• Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
• His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.
• I will ring you when we arrive.
• I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
• Lick my ring
• onion rings; calamari rings
• She aimed to "RING" the bonus square with high-scoring letters.
• St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
• That does not ring true.
• The bells were ringing in the town.
• The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
• The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; of even integers to be a ring.
• The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
• The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
• The name has a nice ring to it.
• The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
• The set of integers, #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;, is the prototypical ring.
• The sound of a perfect Bingo will "RING" in a Words With Friends player’s ears.
• They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
• They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
• to ring a pig’s snout
• We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
• Whose mobile phone is ringing?

Synonyms

anchor ring, annulus, band, border, call, call up, closed chain, doughnut, echo, environ, gang, halo, hoop, knell, mob, pack, peal, phone, resound, reverberate, ringing, skirt, surround, telephone, tintinnabulation, rng, torus

Antonyms

open chain

Related Words

red ring