Sekirov Dictionary

ring

/ɹɪŋ/

noun37

  1. a thing in the shape of a circle with an empty middle, such as one for a finger
  2. A solid object in the shape of a circle.
  3. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
  4. (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
  5. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  6. A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
  7. Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
  8. (informal) A telephone call.
  9. 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.
  10. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
  11. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
  12. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  13. (figurative) A pleasant or correct sound.
  14. (figurative) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
  15. A group of objects arranged in a circle.
  16. A circular group of people or objects.
  17. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
  18. (UK) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
  19. A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
  20. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
  21. A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
  22. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
  23. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
  24. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
  25. A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
  26. (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
  30. A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
  31. A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
  32. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
  33. A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
  34. A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
  35. The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
  36. (historical) 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.
  37. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

verb17

  1. Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
  2. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  3. To produce (a sound) by ringing.
  4. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
  5. To produce music with bells.
  6. (UK, Australia) To telephone (someone).
  7. (figurative) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  8. To enclose or surround.
  9. to resound, reverberate, echo.
  10. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  11. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  12. To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
  13. To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
  14. To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
  15. (old-fashioned) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
  16. (Australia) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
  17. To rise in the air spirally.
forms

ringed · rang · rung · rangest · ringing · ringeth · rings · ringest

Phrases with ring

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