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1  [ring] noun, verb, ringed, ring⋅ing.
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–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)
30. to form a ring or rings.
31. to move in a ring or a constantly curving course: The road rings around the mountain.
—Idioms
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).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hring; c. D, G ring, ON hringr; akin to rank 1

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.
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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
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.
—Verb phrases
21. ring in,
a. to indicate one's arrival at work by punching in on a time clock.
b. Informal. to introduce artfully or fraudulently: to ring in an imposter.
22. ring off,
a. to terminate a telephone conversation.
b. British Slang. to stop talking.
c. British Slang. to go away.
23. ring out,
a. to indicate one's departure from work by punching out on a time clock.
b. to make a sound or noise; resound: The church bells rang out.
24. ring up,
a. to register (the amount of a sale) on a cash register.
b. to accomplish or record: to ring up a series of successes.
c. Chiefly British. to telephone.
—Idioms
25. ring a bell. bell 1 (def. 14).
26. ring down the curtain,
a. to direct that the curtain of a theater be lowered or closed.
b. to lower or close the curtain in front of a stage.
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,
a. to direct that the curtain of a theater be raised or opened.
b. to raise or open the curtain in front of a stage.
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

Related forms:
ring⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
ring⋅ing⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
20. sound, tone, quality.

Ring

  [ring]
–noun
a male given name.

R

  [ahr]
–verb
Informal. are : Oysters R in season.

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.
Also called packing ring, ring.

Origin:
1865–70
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ring 1   (rĭng)   
n.  
  1. A circular object, form, line, or arrangement with a vacant circular center.
  2. A small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.
  3. A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something: a napkin ring.
  4. rings Sports A pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible.
  5. A circular movement or course, as in dancing.
  6. An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place: a circus ring.
  7. Sports
    1. A rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held.
    2. The sport of boxing.
    3. An enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack.
    4. Bookmakers considered as a group.
  8. Games
    1. An enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack.
    2. Bookmakers considered as a group.
  9. An exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests: a drug ring.
  10. A political contest; a race.
  11. Botany An annual ring.
  12. Mathematics The area between two concentric circles; annulus.
  13. Mathematics A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is an abelian group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.
  14. Any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix.
  15. Chemistry A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in circular or triangular form. Also called closed chain.
v.   ringed, ring·ing, rings

v.   tr.
  1. To surround with or as if with a ring; encircle. See Synonyms at surround.
  2. To form into a ring or rings.
  3. To ornament or supply with a ring or rings: ringed the door knocker with a wreath of holly.
  4. To remove a circular strip of bark around the circumference of (a tree trunk or branch); girdle.
  5. To put a ring in the nose of (an animal).
  6. To hem in (animals) by riding in a circle around them.
  7. Games To toss a ring over (a peg), as in horseshoes.
v.   intr.
  1. To form a ring or rings.
  2. To move, run, or fly in a spiral or circular course.

[Middle English, from Old English hring; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
ring 2   (rĭng)   
v.   rang (rāng), rung (rŭng), ring·ing, rings

v.   intr.
  1. To give forth a clear resonant sound.
  2. To cause something to ring.
  3. To sound a bell in order to summon someone: I'll ring for the maid.
  4. To have a sound or character suggestive of a particular quality: a story that rings true.
  5. To be filled with sound; resound: The room rang with the children's laughter.
  6. To hear a persistent humming or buzzing: My ears were ringing from the sound of the blast.
  7. To be filled with talk or rumor: The whole town rang with the bad news.
v.   tr.
  1. To cause (a bell, for example) to ring.
  2. To produce (a sound) by or as if by ringing.
  3. To announce, proclaim, or signal by or as if by ringing: a clock that rings the hour.
  4. Chiefly British To call (someone) on the telephone. Often used with up: She rang me at noon. Let's ring her up and invite her.
  5. To test (a coin, for example) for quality by the sound it produces when struck against something.
n.  
  1. The sound created by a bell or another sonorous vibrating object.
  2. A loud sound, especially one that is repeated or continued.
  3. A telephone call: Give me a ring when you have time.
  4. A suggestion of a particular quality: His offer has a suspicious ring.
  5. A set of bells.
  6. The act or an instance of sounding a bell.
Phrasal Verb(s):
ring up
  1. To record, especially by means of a cash register: ring up a sale.
  2. To accomplish or achieve; win: rang up several consecutive victories.

Idiom(s):
ring a bell Informal To arouse an often indistinct memory.

Idiom(s):
ring down the curtainTo end a performance, event, or action.

Idiom(s):
ring (someone's) chimes/bells Slang To knock (an opponent) out by physical or other force.

Idiom(s):
ring up the curtainTo begin a performance, event, or action.

[Middle English ringen, from Old English hringan.]
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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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Language Translation for : Ring
Spanish: anillo,
German: der Ring,
Japanese: 指輪
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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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ring

See pit.

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 rang>
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ring (rĭng)
n.

  1. A circular object, form, or arrangement with a vacant circular center.
  2. The area between two concentric circles; annulus.
  3. 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 
  1. A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is an abelian group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.
  2. A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in circular or triangular form. Benzene, for example, contains a ring of six carbon atoms. All cyclic compounds contain one or more rings. See annulus.
  3. See growth ring.

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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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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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