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ring
1 [ring]
noun, verb, ringed, ring⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, esp. one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc. |
| 2. | anything having the form of such a band: a napkin ring; a smoke ring. |
| 3. | a circular or surrounding line or mark: dark rings around the eyes. |
| 4. | a circular course: to dance in a ring. |
| 5. | a number of persons or things situated in a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement: a ring of stones; a ring of hills. |
| 6. | the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim. |
| 7. | an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition: a circus ring. |
| 8. | a bullring. |
| 9. | an enclosure in which boxing and wrestling matches take place, usually consisting of a square, canvas-covered platform with surrounding ropes that are supported at each corner by posts. |
| 10. | the sport of boxing; prizefighting: the heyday of the ring. |
| 11. | (formerly in the U.S., now only in Brit.) an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets. |
| 12. | a group of persons cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law: a ring of dope smugglers. |
| 13. | a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course. |
| 14. | Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles. |
| 15. | annual ring. |
| 16. | a circle of bark cut from around a tree. |
| 17. | Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form. Compare chain (def. 7). |
| 18. | Architecture. rowlock (def. 1). |
| 19. | a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured. |
| 20. | Also called spinning ring. Textiles. (in the ring-spinning frame) a circular track of highly polished steel on which the traveler moves and which imparts twists to the yarn by variations in its vertical movement. |
| 21. | a unit of measurement of the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch. Also called ring gauge. |
| 22. | Automotive, Machinery. piston ring. |
| 23. | Mathematics. a set that is closed under the operations of addition and multiplication and that is an Abelian group with respect to addition and an associative semigroup with respect to multiplication and in which the distributive laws relating the two operations hold. |
–verb (used with object)
| 24. | to surround with a ring; encircle. |
| 25. | to form into a ring. |
| 26. | to insert a ring through the nose of (an animal). |
| 27. | to hem in (animals) by riding or circling about them. |
| 28. | to girdle (def. 11). |
| 29. | (in horseshoes, ringtoss, etc.) to encircle (a stake or peg) with a ring, horseshoe, etc. |
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms| 30. | to form a ring or rings. |
| 31. | to move in a ring or a constantly curving course: The road rings around the mountain. |
| 32. | run rings around, to be obviously superior to; surpass; outdo: As an artist, she can run rings around her brother. |
| 33. | throw or toss one's hat in or into the ring. hat (def. 8). |
Related forms:
ringless, adjective
ringlike, adjective
Synonyms:
2. circle, circlet, hoop; annulus. 7. arena, rink, circle. 12. bloc, coterie, confederacy, league; gang, mob, syndicate. Ring, clique are terms applied with disapproving connotations to groups of persons. Ring suggests a small and intimately related group, combined for selfish and often dishonest purposes: a gambling ring. A clique is a small group that prides itself on its congeniality and exclusiveness: cliques in a school.
2. circle, circlet, hoop; annulus. 7. arena, rink, circle. 12. bloc, coterie, confederacy, league; gang, mob, syndicate. Ring, clique are terms applied with disapproving connotations to groups of persons. Ring suggests a small and intimately related group, combined for selfish and often dishonest purposes: a gambling ring. A clique is a small group that prides itself on its congeniality and exclusiveness: cliques in a school.
ring
2 [ring]
verb, rang, rung, ring⋅ing, noun –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice. |
| 2. | to make a given impression on the mind; appear: words that rang false; a story that rings true. |
| 3. | to cause a bell or bells to sound, esp. as a summons: Just ring if you need anything. |
| 4. | to sound loudly; be loud or resonant; resound (often fol. by out): His brave words rang out. |
| 5. | to be filled with sound; reecho with sound, as a place. |
| 6. | (of the ears) to have the sensation of a continued humming sound. |
| 7. | Chiefly British. to telephone. |
–verb (used with object)
| 8. | to cause (a bell or device with a bell) to ring; sound by striking: to ring a bell. |
| 9. | to produce (sound) by or as if by ringing: The bell rang a low tone. |
| 10. | to announce or proclaim, usher in or out, summon, signal, etc., by or as if by the sound of a bell: to ring someone's praises; The bell rang the hour. |
| 11. | to test (a coin or other metal object) by the sound it produces when struck against something. |
| 12. | Chiefly British. to telephone. |
–noun
—Verb phrases| 13. | a ringing sound, as of a bell or bells: the ring of sleigh bells. |
| 14. | a sound or tone likened to the ringing of a bell: Rings of laughter issued from the school. |
| 15. | any loud sound; sound continued, repeated, or reverberated: the ring of iron upon stone. |
| 16. | a set or peal of bells. |
| 17. | a telephone call: Give me a ring tomorrow. |
| 18. | an act or instance of ringing a bell: No one answered my ring. |
| 19. | a characteristic sound, as of a coin. |
| 20. | the aspect or impression presented by a statement, an action, etc., taken as revealing a specified inherent quality: a ring of assurance in her voice; the ring of truth; a false ring. |
| 21. | ring in,
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| 22. | ring off,
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| 23. | ring out,
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| 24. | ring up,
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| 25. | ring a bell. bell 1 (def. 14). |
| 26. | ring down the curtain,
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| 27. | ring down the curtain on, to bring to an end: The accident rang down the curtain on his law career. |
| 28. | ring the bell. bell 1 (def. 15). |
| 29. | ring the changes. change (def. 38). |
| 30. | ring up the curtain,
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| 31. | ring up the curtain on, to begin; inaugurate; initiate: The $100-a-plate dinner rang up the curtain on the hospital's fund-raising drive. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME ringen, OE hringan; c. ON hringja, G ringen
bef. 900; ME ringen, OE hringan; c. ON hringja, G ringen

Related forms:
ring⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
ring⋅ing⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
20. sound, tone, quality.
20. sound, tone, quality.
piston ring
–noun
| a metallic ring, usually one of a series, and split so as to be expansible, placed around a piston in order to maintain a tight fit, as inside the cylinder of an engine. |
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ring 1 (rĭng) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English, from Old English hring; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
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Ring
Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung (r[u^]ng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.]1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. 2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound. The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. --Shak. 3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells. To ring the changes upon. See under Change. To ring in or out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. --Tennyson. To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. --Sir W. Scott.Ring
Ring\, v. i. 1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. --Chaucer. Why ring not out the bells? --Shak. 2. To practice making music with bells. --Holder. 3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound. With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. --Pope. The hall with harp and carol rang. --Tennyson. My ears still ring with noise. --Dryden. 4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. The assertion is still ringing in our ears. --Burke. 5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.Ring
Ring\, n. 1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell. 2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. --Bacon 3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world. --Fuller.Ring
Ring\, n. [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G. ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf. Russ. krug'. Cf. Harangue, Rank a row,Rink.] A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop. 2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. --Shak. 3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena. Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. --E. Smith. 4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. "The road was an institution, the ring was an institution." --Thackeray. 5. A circular group of persons. And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's alter sing. --Milton. 6. (Geom.) (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure. 7. (Astron. & Navigation) 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. 8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium. 9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc. The ruling ring at Constantinople. --E. A. Freeman. Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under Chain. Ring blackbird (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel. Ring canal (Zo["o]l.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zo["o]l.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. Ring fence. See under Fence. Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage. Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under Benzene. Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth. Ring micrometer. (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under Micrometer. Saturn's rings. See Saturn. Ring ousel. (Zo["o]l.) See Ousel. Ring parrot (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Pal[ae]ornis torquatus, common in India, and P. Alexandri of Java. Ring plover. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover ([AE]gialitis semipalmata). Ring snake (Zo["o]l.), a small harmless American snake (Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red. Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper. Ring thrush (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel. The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively. The ring. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.Ring
Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. "Ring these fingers." --Shak. 2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots. 3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.Ring
Ring\, v. i. (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
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ring (n.)
O.E. hring "circular band," from P.Gmc. *khrengaz (cf. O.N. hringr, O.Fris. hring, Ger. Ring), lit. "something curved," from PIE base *(s)ker- "to turn, bend" (cf. L. curvus "bent, curved," crispus "curly;" O.C.S. kragu "circle," and perhaps Gk. kirkos "ring," koronos "curved"). Meaning "place for prize fight and wrestling bouts" (c.1330) is from the space in a circle of bystanders in which such contests were once held (ringside is attested from 1866). Meaning "combination of interested persons" is from 1829. The verb meaning "to make a circle around" is O.E. ymbhringan. The circus ringmaster is recorded from 1873. Tree ring is from 1671; fairy ring is from 1626. Nursery rhyme ring a ring a rosie, is attested in an American form (with a different ending) from c.1790. "The belief that the rhyme originated with the Great Plague is now almost universal, but has no evidence to support it and is almost certainly nonsense" ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"]. This connection only dates to the 1960s.
ring (v.)
"sound a bell," O.E. hringan, from P.Gmc. *khrenganan (cf. O.N. hringja, Swed. ringa, M.Du. ringen), probably of imitative origin. To give (someone) a ring "call on the telephone" was in use by 1910. To ring down a theatrical curtain is from 1772, from the custom of signaling for it by ringing a bell.
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Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Main Entry: 1ring
Pronunciation: 'ri[ng]
Function: noun
1 a : a circular band b : an anatomical structure having acircular opening : ANNULUS
2 : an arrangement of atoms represented in formulas or models in acyclic manner as a closed chain called also cycle
Main Entry: 2ring
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Forms: rang /'ra[ng]/; rung /'r&[ng]/; ring·ing /'ri[ng]-i[ng]/
: to have the sensation of being filled with a humming sound
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ring (rĭng)
n.
- A circular object, form, or arrangement with a vacant circular center.
- The area between two concentric circles; annulus.
- A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in circular or triangular form.
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ring (rĭng) Pronunciation Key
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Ring
Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Gen. 38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority (Gen. 41:42; Esther 3:8-10; 8:2), and of favour and dignity (Luke 15:22). They were generally worn by rich men (James 2:2). They are mentioned by Isiah (3:21) among the adornments of Hebrew women.
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ring
In addition to the idioms beginning with ring, also see brass ring; give someone a ring; have a familiar ring; run rings around; three-ring circus; throw one's hat in the ring.
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