Pronunciations (2)
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/ɹɪŋ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈɹɪŋɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- Midlands
- Northern-England
Noun
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.
Usage- physical
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.
Usage- physical
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His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
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.
Usage- UK usage
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A solid object in the shape of a circle. A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
Usage- UK usage
- physical
A solid object in the shape of a circle. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
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onion rings
calamari rings
A solid object in the shape of a circle. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
Usage- physical
A solid object in the shape of a circle. The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
Usage- physical
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Lick my ring!
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.
Usage- Historical
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A solid object in the shape of a circle. A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
Usage- physical
A group of objects arranged in a circle. A circular group of people or objects.
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a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.
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The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
A group of objects arranged in a circle. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
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Soon Voyager will cross through the plane of Neptune's rings. This dusty, debris-laden zone is the most perilous passage. Most of the ring dust is the size of cigarette-smoke particles.
A group of objects arranged in a circle. A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
Usage- UK usage
- physical
A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
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a ring of grime around the bathtub
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.
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Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
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“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!” Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.
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.
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a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
the ruling ring at Constantinople
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It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
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a benzene ring
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.
Usage- Historical
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The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
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Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.
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.
Verb
To enclose or surround.
Usage- Transitive
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The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
Today, when stepping off the train, you're presented with a bright and airy concourse that's ringed with a variety of facilities.
To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
Usage- Figurative
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They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
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The ironbark trees are "rung" at a certain height top and bottom, and the bark detached in one sheet; it is then wetted, and laid out flat on the ground, huge stones being placed to keep it from rolling up again.
At the end of long days he would lean heavily on the handle, and regarding the patches he had rung with a look of satisfaction, would say to his wife: [...] ‘We’ll have twenty acres cleared and under the plough in no time.’
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
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We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
Usage- Transitive
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to ring a pig’s snout
Ring these fingers with thy household worms.
To rise in the air spirally.
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[…] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!
To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
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A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.
They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".
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.
Usage- Australia
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‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’
Noun
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
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The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
A pleasant or correct sound.
Usage- Figurative
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The name has a nice ring to it.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
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Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
A telephone call.
Usage- Colloquial
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I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
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the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
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St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
Verb
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
Usage- Intransitive
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The bells were ringing in the town.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
Usage- Transitive
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The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
To produce (a sound) by ringing.
Usage- Transitive
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They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Usage- Figurative
- Intransitive
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Whose mobile phone is ringing?
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
Usage- Figurative
- Intransitive
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That does not ring true.
To telephone (someone).
Usage- Australia
- New-Zealand
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- Colloquial
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I will ring you when we arrive.
to resound, reverberate, echo.
Usage- Intransitive
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[…] And many an old philosophy On Argive heights divinely sang, And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady.
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So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
To produce music with bells.
Usage- Intransitive
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Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing
To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
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The checkout girl rang it into his total, and he paid the bill.
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On presentation of the item at the checkout the original price sticker was concealed from the checkout assistant and a sticker of $38.88 exhibited on the item. The checkout operator rang on the lesser sum, a mistake known to Dronjak. He was subsequently charged with theft.
. The new cashier rang something twice and had to call for the manager to fix the register.
To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
Usage- Dated
Noun
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.
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The set of integers, #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;, is the prototypical ring.
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.
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The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; of even integers to be a ring.
Noun
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.
Noun
a characteristic sound
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it has the ring of sincerity
a toroidal shape
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a ring of ships in the harbor
a halo of smoke
a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
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there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse
(chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
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an association of criminals
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police tried to break up the gang
a pack of thieves
the sound of a bell ringing
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the distinctive ring of the church bell
the ringing of the telephone
a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
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jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
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she had rings on every finger
he noted that she wore a wedding band
a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
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Verb
sound loudly and sonorously
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the bells rang
ring or echo with sound
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the hall resounded with laughter
make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
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Ring the bells
My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
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I tried to call you all night
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
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The forest surrounds my property
attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
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ring birds
band the geese to observe their migratory patterns