Ring

Noun

 * 1) A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
 * 2) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.
 * 3)  A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
 * 4) A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ring
 * 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.
 * 6) An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring.
 * 7)  A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
 * 8)  A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
 * 9)  A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter.
 * 10)  An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
 * 11) * 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. &mdash;
 * 1)  a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
 * 2)  A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
 * 3) * 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.

Synonyms

 * hoop, annulus, torus

Derived terms

 * annual ring
 * benzene ring
 * boxing ring
 * brass ring
 * bull ring
 * calamari ring
 * chiainring
 * circus ring
 * class ring
 * claw ring
 * coffee ring
 * D ring
 * diamond ring
 * division ring
 * earring
 * egg ring
 * engagement ring
 * enringed
 * finger ring
 * Fomalhaut dust ring
 * front ring
 * gas ring
 * growth ring
 * key ring/keyring
 * life ring
 * limbal ring
 * local ring
 * mancude-ring system
 * neck ring
 * nose ring
 * O-ring
 * oath ring
 * Olympic Rings
 * onion ring
 * piscatory ring
 * piston ring
 * planetary ring
 * prize ring
 * quotient ring
 * Ring a Ring o' Roses
 * ring-a-levio
 * ring armor
 * ring bark/ringbark/ring-bark
 * ring-billed
 * ring binder
 * ring dance
 * ring dove/ringdove
 * ring dropper
 * ring fence


 * ring finger/ringfinger
 * ring game
 * ringlike
 * ring mail/ringmail
 * ring of death
 * Ring of Fire
 * ring of steel
 * ring of truth
 * ring ouzel
 * ring parrot
 * ring plover
 * ring-porous
 * ring pull
 * ring rat
 * ring road
 * ring snake
 * ring species
 * ring spot
 * ring stand
 * ring system
 * ring-tailed
 * ring theory
 * ring thrush
 * ring toplogy
 * ringed
 * ringbearer
 * ringleader
 * ringlet
 * ringlike
 * ringneck
 * ring-neck(ed)
 * ringpiece
 * ringside
 * ring spot
 * ringstraked
 * ringtail
 * ring-tail(ed)
 * ringworm
 * rubber ring
 * run rings around
 * signet ring
 * seal ring
 * slip ring
 * smoke ring
 * snap ring
 * spy ring
 * star ring
 * synonym ring
 * teething ring
 * toe ring
 * token ring
 * tongue ring
 * tree ring
 * wedding ring

Verb

 * 1)  To surround or enclose.
 * The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
 * 1)  To make an incision around; to girdle.
 * They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
 * 1)  To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
 * Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
 * We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

Derived terms

 * ringer

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  A pleasant or correct sound.
 * The name has a nice ring to it.
 * 1)  A telephone call.
 * I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

Derived terms

 * give a ring
 * ringtone

Verb

 * 1)  To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
 * Whose mobile phone is ringing?
 * 1)  To make a (church) bell produce sound.
 * The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
 * 1)  Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
 * That does not ring true.
 * 1)  To telephone someone.
 * I will ring you when we arrive.
 * 1)  to resound, reverberate, echo
 * 2) * 1898,, 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.
 * 1) * 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."

Derived terms

 * ring a bell
 * ring back
 * ringer
 * ringing


 * ring false
 * ring off
 * ring someone's bell
 * ring true


 * ring up
 * unring

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * Boolean ring
 * polynomial ring

Adverbs for Ring
incessantly; musically; harshly; dolefully; drowsily; monotonously; feebly; impatiently; blithely; resonantly; piercingly; metalically; vigorously; jubilantly; tinklingly.

Thesaurus
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Etymology 1
hring:, from (compare Dutch ring:, German Ring:), from ; akin to Umbrian krenkatrum:, cringatro:,.

Etymology 2
Verb is from Old English hringan.

Etymology 3
A shortening of Zahlring:; coined by mathematician David Hilbert in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory, page 49.)

Noun

 * Aragonese: aniello
 * Asturian: aniellu
 * Catalan: anell
 * Corsican: anellu
 * Czech: kroužek
 * Estonian: rõngas
 * French: anneau
 * Galician: anel
 * German:
 * Greek: δαχτυλίδι
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:


 * Italian: anello
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 고리 (gori)
 * Latin: anulus
 * Manx: kiarkyl
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: anel
 * Romanian: inel
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: unazë
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azeri: üzük
 * Bashkir: ,
 * Belarusian: пярсьцёнак, piarścionak
 * Bemba: im-balaáminwe, i-lindaáminwe
 * Breton: bizou
 * Bulgarian: пръстен
 * Catalan: anella
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chamorro: aniyu
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese: 戒指 (jièzhǐ)
 * Chuvash:
 * Corsican:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: суркс
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: δαχτυλίδι
 * Guaraní: kuairũ
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: טבעת
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Karachay-Balkar: ,
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: жүзік


 * Khakas: ,
 * Korean: 가락지 (garagji), 반지 (半指, banji)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: жүзүк, шакек
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gredzens
 * Lithuanian: žiedas
 * Malay: cincin
 * Maltese: ċurkett
 * Mongolian: бөгж
 * Navajo:
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnolo: anèl
 * Romani: अंगूस्ती (aṅgūstī)
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian: кольцо (kol’tsó), перстень (p'érst'en')
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàinne
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian:, aniddu
 * Slovak: prsteň, obrúčka (wedding ring)
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ангуштарин
 * Tatar: yözek, baldaq
 * Telugu: ఉంగరం
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýüzük
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: перстень
 * Uzbek: uzuk
 * West Frisian:
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:


 * Armenian: օղ
 * Estonian: rõngas
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: טבעת, צמיד
 * Irish:


 * Polish: obrączka
 * Russian: кольцо (kol’tsó)
 * Slovene: obroček
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Portuguese:


 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Breton: ring
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αρένα
 * Hebrew: זירה


 * Hungarian: szorító,
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: リング
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: గోదా (gOdaa), బరి (bari)


 * French: piste
 * Greek: πίστα


 * Hungarian: porond


 * Finnish:
 * French: cercle
 * German:
 * Greek: κύκλος


 * Japanese:
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:


 * German:
 * Greek: κύκλος
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Polish:


 * Russian: кольцо (kol’tsó)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: kolobar
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: anneauδακτύλιος
 * Greek: δακτύλιος
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:


 * Lithuanian: žiedas
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: кольцо (kol’tsó)
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * : gwalenn
 * : ringo


 * : ringo
 * : cincin

Verb

 * Japanese:


 * Polish:

Noun

 * Armenian: ղողանջ
 * Japanese:


 * Russian:


 * Japanese:


 * Armenian:
 * German:
 * Japanese:


 * Lithuanian: skambutis
 * Russian: звонок


 * : csengés
 * : csengés


 * : klang

Verb

 * Arabic: (Taraqa jaras), رن
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: dringar, trucar (only door-bell)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 按鈴, 按铃, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鳴る
 * Korean: 울리다
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: звонить (zvonít’)
 * Slovak: zvoniť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: fer sonar
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: soittaa kelloa
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 鳴らす
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: uderzać
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: звонить (zvonít’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: kuulostaa
 * German:
 * Japanese:


 * Russian: звучать (zvučát’)
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Czech: zavolat, brnknout
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: soittaa
 * German:
 * Japanese: 電話を掛ける


 * Lithuanian: skambinti
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Russian: звонить (zvonít’), позвонить (pozvonít’)
 * Spanish: llamar, telefonear
 * Swedish:


 * : seniñ
 * : sonori


 * : bel berbunyi, membunyikan bel
 * : tintinare

Noun

 * Arabic: حلقة
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חוג


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: кольцо (kol’tsó)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * girn
 * grin
 * NGRI

Preposition
ring


 * 1) in, at

Noun

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

Etymology
From ring:.

Noun

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

Noun

 * 1) circle
 * 2) halo
 * 3) hoop
 * 4) coil
 * 1) coil

Etymology 1
From hringr:.

Etymology 2
Verbal noun to ringe:.

Etymology 3
See.

Noun

 * 1) A ring, hollow circular object
 * 2) A beltway

Etymology
From ring:, from.

Derived terms

 * bisschopsring
 * ringvormig
 * omringen
 * trouwring
 * verlovingsring
 * vissersring
 * zegelring

Etymology
From

Verb
ring


 * 1) To sway

Noun

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

Noun

 * 1) ring, circle

Etymology
From.

Descendants

 * Dutch:

Noun

 * 1) A ring

Noun

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