Etymology : Middle English, from Old English hring; akin to Old High German hring ring, Old Church Slavonic krogu circle
Pronunciation : ri[ng]
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. ring. circle. prize ring.
2. sound of a bell; telephone call; circle of metal worn on the finger; circle; circular object or course; tone, sound; group of people engaged in a particular activity; enclosed area for sports competitions (i.e. bullring, boxing ring); bookies at a race track; place where bets are made at a race track. call on the telephone (British); bid, call, summon; encircle, surround; form into a ring; sound a bell; seem, appear; resound, be filled with sound; reverberate, echo. ring\ring\ (r&ibreve;ng), v. t. [imp. rang (răng) or rung (rŭng); p. p. rung; p. pr. & vb. n. ringing.] [as. hringan; akin to icel. hringja, sw. ringa, dan. ringe, od. ringhen, ringkelen. ?19.].
3. to cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
4. 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.
5. to repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
6. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
7. To make , as by ringing a bell; to sound.
8. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
9. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
10. To practice making music with bells.
11. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
12. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
13. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
14. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
15. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
16. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
17. A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
18. 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.
19. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
20. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.
21. A circular group of persons.
22. The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
23. The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
24. 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.
25. An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
26. See Illust. of Sporangium.
27. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
28. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
29. To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
30. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
31. To rise in the air spirally. jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" a square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity" the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E.
32. Poe a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns" sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang" make ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church".
33. ring, circle, prize ring. ring, boxing ring. ,-gi.
34. sports boxing ring.
35. circular route (followed by a ship).
36. boxing ring. circular route followed by a ship. circle. prize ring.
37. a set of four operas by Richard Wagner, known also as The Ring of the Nibelung or The Ring Cycle. They are based on stories from German mythology. Circular band of gold, silver, or other precious or decorative material usually worn on the finger, but sometimes on the toes, the ears, or the nose. The earliest examples were found in the tombs of ancient Egypt. In addition to being worn as adornment, rings have functioned as symbols of authority, fidelity, or social status. In the early Roman republic, most were made of iron, gold being reserved for persons of high status; but by the 3rd century BC anyone except a slave could wear a gold ring. The Romans are thought to have originated engagement rings, symbolizing a promise of marriage. In the Middle Ages, signet rings were important in religious, legal, and commercial transactions; memorial, posy, and keepsake rings served sentimental purposes; occult rings supposedly had magical powers; and poison rings had hollow bezels that could be filled with poison for the purpose of suicide or homicide. In modern algebra, a set of elements with two operations, referred to as "addition" and "multiplication," that conform to certain conditions. These specify that the set is closed under both operations, the associative law holds for both operations, the commutative law holds for addition, the distributive law holds, there is an additive identity (known as zero), and every element has an additive inverse (see:
inverse function). The set of integers is a ring. See also field theory. growth ring Ring of Fire Whiskey Ring change ringing.
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