ring

• enPR: rĭng, IPA^(key): /ɹɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Homophone: wring

From Middle English ring, ryng, also rink, rynk, from Old English hring, hrincg (“ring, link of chain, fetter, festoon, anything circular, circle, circular group, border, horizon, corselet, circuit (of a year), cycle, course, orb, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Scots ring (“ring”), West Frisian ring (“ring”), Saterland Frisian Ring (“ring, circle”), Dutch ring (“ring, hoop”), Low German Ring (“ring”), German Ring (“ring, circle”), Swedish ring (“ring, circle”), Icelandic hringur (“ring”), Umbrian krenkatrum, cringatro (“belt”), Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (“circle”) (Russian круг (krug)), Old English hrung (“cross-bar, spoke”), Albanian vrangull (“a wheel-shaped tool, circle motion”), rreng (“to do a prank, cheat, deceive”). More at rung.

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.
      • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

        The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.

   3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
   4. (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
   5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
   6. 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

      • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

        And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.

      • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

        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.

   2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
   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. 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Smith

     Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

5. 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)

   • (Can we date this quote?) Edward Augustus Freeman

     the ruling ring at Constantinople

   • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston

     It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.

   • 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

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

   a benzene ring

7. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
8. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
9. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 168.

     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. —

10. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
    • 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)

      Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.

11. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
12. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

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  A boxing ring.
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  A ring on a finger.
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  The rings of a tree.
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  The circus ring.
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  A ring on a bird's leg.
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  The rings of Saturn.

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.

   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.

   • 1919, Popular Science (volume 95, number 4, page 31)

     Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.

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

   to ring a pig’s snout

   • Shakespeare

     Ring these fingers.

5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
   • 1877 May 30, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462, stanza 1, page 29:

     […] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!

• ringer

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hringan (“to ring, sound, clash; announce by bells”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną (“to resound, ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreg- (“to crow, caw, croak, shout”). Cognate with Dutch ringen (“to ring”), Danish ringe (“to ring, call”), Swedish ringa (“to ring, call”), Icelandic hringja (“to ring, call”), Lithuanian krañkti (“to caw, croak, cough”), Albanian vring (“a high-pitched sound made by waving violently a solid object”).

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.
   • Francis Bacon

     the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears

6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

   St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

   • Fuller

     as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world

• give a ring
• ringtone
• ringback

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.

   • Shakespeare

     The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.

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

   Whose mobile phone is ringing?

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

   That does not ring true.

5. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

   I will ring you when we arrive.

6. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     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.

   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     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."

7. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.

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

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892).[1] Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

The symbol ℤ represents the ring of integers.

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, ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} }$ , 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 ${\displaystyle 2\mathbb {Z} }$ of even integers to be a ring.

• pseudo-ring
• semiring

• commutative ring
  • integral domain
    • unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain
      • principal ideal domain
        • Euclidean domain
          • field

• Boolean ring
• polynomial ring

• NGRI, girn, grin

ring

1. in, at (basa alus)

   Ring Bali wénten danu patpat: Batur, Beratan, Tambilingan miwah Buyan. ― There are four lakes in Bali: Batur, Beratan, Tambilingan and Buyan.

   lianan ring ― besides

   ring ajeng ― in front of

   ring arep ― in front of

   ring dija? ― (at) where?

   Ring dija ragané magenah? ― Where do you live?

   Ring dija ragané mekarya? ― Where do you work?

   ring jero ― inside

   ring pidan? ― when? (past time reference)

   Ring pidan ipun rauh? ― When did he come?

   ring sapunapi ― sometime(s), from time to time

   Synonym: di (basa biasa)

ring

1. (of weight) light

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk
• Homophone: rynk

ring m inan

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

• ring in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ring in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

• IPA^(key): /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

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

• vielsesring

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

• IPA^(key): /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

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

See ringe.

• IPA^(key): /renɡ/, [ʁæŋˀ]

ring

1. imperative of ringe

From Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

• IPA^(key): /rɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

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ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

1. ring, hollow circular object
2. beltway

• kring

From Middle Low German rink. Compare German Ring. See also rõngas.

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

1. circle

• rõngas

From English ring (sense 1) and Dutch ring (sense 2).

• IPA^(key): /ʁiŋɡ/

ring m (plural rings)

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

• “ring” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ʁɪŋ]

ring

1. Imperative singular of ringen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of ringen.

• IPA^(key): [ˈriŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: ring

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (frequentative suffix).[1]

ring

1. (intransitive) to sway

• ringat

From English ring.[2]

ring (plural ringek)

1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)

   Synonym: szorító

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

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

ring

1. imperative of ringe

• “ring” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

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

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

ring

1. imperative of ringja, ringje, ringa and ringe

• “ring” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

ring m

1. ring, circle

• Middle Dutch: rinc
  • Dutch: ring
  • Limburgish: rink

• “rink”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

ring m

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

• Middle High German: [Term?]
  • German: Ring
  • Luxembourgish: Rank
  • Yiddish: רינג‎ (ring)

ring m (plural rings)

1. Alternative form of ringue