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throw one's hat into the ring

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hat

  [hat] noun, verb, hat⋅ted, hat⋅ting.
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–noun
1. a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, esp. for wear outdoors.
2. Roman Catholic Church.
a. the distinctive head covering of a cardinal.
b. the office or dignity of a cardinal. Compare red hat.
–verb (used with object)
3. to provide with a hat; put a hat on.
—Idioms
4. hat in hand, humbly; respectfully: He approached the boss, hat in hand.
5. pass the hat, to ask for contributions of money, as for charity; take up a collection: The lodge members passed the hat to send underprivileged children to summer camp.
6. take off one's hat to, to express high regard for; praise: We took off our hats to their courage and daring.
7. talk through one's hat, to speak without knowing the facts; make unsupported or incorrect statements: He is talking through his hat when he says he'll make the team.
8. throw or toss one's hat in or into the ring, to become a participant in a contest, esp. to declare one's candidacy for political office: His friends are urging him to throw his hat in the ring.
9. under one's hat, confidential; private; secret: I'll tell you the real story, but keep it under your hat.
10. wear two or several hats, to function in more than one capacity; fill two or more positions: He wears two hats, serving as the company's comptroller as well as its chief executive officer.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hætt; c. ON hǫttr hood; akin to hood 1

Related forms:
hatless, adjective
hat⋅less⋅ness, noun
hatlike, adjective

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)
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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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Word Origin & History

hat 
O.E. hæt "hat, head covering," from P.Gmc. *khattuz "hood, cowl" (cf. O.N. hattr), from PIE base *kadh- "cover, protect" (cf. Lith. kudas "tuft or crest of a bird," L. cassis "helmet"). Now, "head covering with a more or less horizontal brim." To throw one's hat in the ring was originally (1847) to take up a challenge in prize-fighting. To eat one's hat was originally To eat Old Rowley's [Charles II's] hat.

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

ring

See pit.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Medical Dictionary

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>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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