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Definition von ring 2 im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- You can refer to an organized group of people who are involved in an illegal activity as a ring. Police are investigating the suspected drug ring at the school
- If you say that someone runs rings round you or runs rings around you, you mean that they are a lot better or a lot more successful than you at a particular activity. Mentally, he can still run rings round men half his age!
- If a building or place is ringed with or by something, it is surrounded by it. The areas are sealed off and ringed by troops
- At a boxing or wrestling match or a circus, the ring is the place where the contest or performance takes place. It consists of an enclosed space with seats round it. He will never again be allowed inside a British boxing ring
- A gas or electric ring is one of the small flat areas on top of a stove which heat up and which you use for cooking
- An object or substance that is in the shape of a circle can be described as a ring. Frank took a large ring of keys from his pocket. a ring of blue smoke
- A group of people or things arranged in a circle can be described as a ring. They then formed a ring around the square. = circle
- A ring is a small circle of metal or other substance that you wear on your finger as jewellery. a gold wedding ring