ring

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭng, IPA: /ɹɪŋ/
• Homophone: wring

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
   1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
      • Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus
   2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
   3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
   4. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
   5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
   6. (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.
   7. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
   1. A circular group of people or objects.
      • a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
   2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
   3. (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
   • onion rings
4. (Internet) Short for webring.
5. 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.
   1. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
6. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
   • a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
7. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
   • a benzene ring
8. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
9. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
10. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
11. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
12. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
13. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
   • The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
   • They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
   • We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
   • to ring a pig’s snout
5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
7. (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
   • The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
   • The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
   • The name has a nice ring to it.
3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
   • Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
4. (colloquial) A telephone call.
   • I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
   • St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
   • The bells were ringing in the town.
2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
   • The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
   • They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
   • Whose mobile phone is ringing?
5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
   • That does not ring true.
6. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
   • I will ring you when we arrive.
7. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
9. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (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, $Z$, is the prototypical ring.
2. (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 $2Z$ of even integers to be a ring.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.

Anagrams

• NGRI, girn, grin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rəŋ/

Noun

ring (plural ringe)

1. ring, hollow circular object

Noun

ring

1. taro

Romanization

ring

1. Romanization of ᬭᬶᬂ

Adjective

ring

1. (of weight) light

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈrɪŋk]
• Homophone: rynk

Noun

ring m inan

1. ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

Noun

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

1. ring
2. circle
3. halo
4. hoop
5. coil

Pronunciation

• IPA: /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

Noun

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringe

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

1. ring, hollow circular object
2. (gymnastics) ring
3. beltway, ring road

Noun

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

1. circle

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁiŋɡ/

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
2. (Belgium) ring road, beltway

Noun

ring

1. boat

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ʁɪŋ]

Verb

ring

1. singular imperative of ringen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ringen

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈriŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: ring

Verb

ring

1. (intransitive) to swing, to rock
   • Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik
2. (intransitive, of a ship) to sway, to roll
   • Synonyms: ringatózik, ringatódzik, dülöng, dülöngél, himbálódzik, himbálózik

Noun

ring (plural ringek)

1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)
   • Synonym: szorító

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈrɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring (first-person possessive ringku, second-person possessive ringmu, third-person possessive ringnya)

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of bell.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈrɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring

1. ring,
   1. a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
      • Synonyms: cincin, gelang
   2. boxing ring.
2. (colloquial) circle
   • Synonym: lingkaran

Adjective

ring

1. loud

Noun

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringer, definite plural ringene)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringe

Alternative forms

• reng (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rɪŋː/

Noun

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringar, definite plural ringane)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. a circle
3. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringja, ringa

Noun

ring m

1. ring, circle

Alternative forms

• hring

Noun

ring m

1. ring (object in the shape of a circle)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /riŋk/
• Syllabification: ring

Noun

ring m inan

1. (boxing) boxing ring

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. Alternative form of ringue

Noun

rȉng m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏нг)

1. the ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. (boxing) ring

Noun

ring c

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
3. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
4. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
5. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
6. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool)
   • Ann började nyss andra ring.

     • Ann recently began her second year at the gymnasium.

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringa.

Noun

ring c (plural ringen, diminutive rinkje)

1. ring, circle
2. ring (jewelry)

Noun

ring

1. ring