Definition of ring in English English dictionary
- A surname for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness
- An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is an abelian group under addition and a monoid under multiplication
The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, is the prototypical ring.
- An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under multiplication, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element
The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2\mathbb{Z} of even integers to be a ring.
- A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring)
Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter
The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration
- To telephone someone
I will ring you when we arrive.
- A telephone call
I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
- 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
- To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound
Whose mobile phone is ringing?.
- A pleasant or correct sound
The name has a nice ring to it.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it
The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification
We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter
- To surround or enclose
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ring
- To make a (church) bell produce sound
The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
- To make an incision around; to girdle
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc
- to resound, reverberate, echo
It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man..
- a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge
- Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound
That does not ring true.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger
- {v} to fit with rings, strike a bell, tinkle, clink, sound, make a noise, echo, resound
- {n} a circle, ornament, sound, set of bells
- 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
- An Irish family name
- Poe a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke"
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
- To practice making music with bells
- of Sporangium
- 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
- An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns
- be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
- To attach a ring to
- A network configuration (topology) in which all computers and devices are connected to a circular pathway See star and bus
- To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle
- The set of files currently being edited are arranged in a ring formation
- To surround
- One of the wires that make up the local loop, Ring is the connected ring on the jack that was used when operators use to switch the calls Also the term for the energy on a POTS line that allows the telephone to ring
- The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated
- an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"
- 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 (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band"
- An algebraic structure which is a group under addition and a monoid under multiplication
- To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly
- A circular area on the trading floor of an exchange where traders and brokers stand while executing futures trades Some exchanges use pits rather than rings See Pit
- A connected set of edges that composes the face border Any single ring is only referenced to and by a single face If the same set of edges is shared by two different faces, two rings that correspond to the two faces are created from the single edge set Rings only occur at level 3 topology (when faces are also present)
- To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell
- An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting
- To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout
- A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc
- 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
- {f} 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
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church
- A mathematical system that has two operations, usually called addition and multiplication A ring is an abelian group with respect to addition Multiplication is associative and distributive with respect to addition
- To rise in the air spirally
- a square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- A circular area on the trading floor of an exchange where floor traders and floor brokers stand while executing futures trades
- A type of network topology where the devices are connected to a continuous conductor
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
- In networking, a topology in which the physical medium is distributed to form a closed loop Often used to assure high availability of the transport medium
- A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell
- To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound
- 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
- A set of stations wherein information is passed sequentially between stations, each station in turn examining or copying the information, and finally returning it to the originating station
- Ring of Fire
- An area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity, around the Pacific Ocean
- ring a bell
- To seem at least vaguely familiar
His face rings a bell. I wonder if I know him from somewhere.
- ring a bell
- To spark a previously forgotten memory
- ring around
- To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something
- ring back
- To make another phone call to the same person
I had to ring you back because I forgot to ask you something important.
- ring back
- To return a phone call
John called. He asked for you to ring him back as soon as you arrived.
- ring binder
- A folder in which punched pieces of paper may be held by means of clamps running through the holes in the paper
- ring binders
- plural form of ring binder
- ring cadence
- The ringing pattern heard by the dialer before the called party picks up the call
- ring dove
- a species of dove with the taxonomic classification Streptopelia risoria
- ring false
- To seem to be incorrect, or implausible
His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false, to me.
- ring field
- an attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket - point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg
- ring finger
- Finger between middle finger and little finger; the "third finger" (UK) or the "fourth finger" (US), especially of the left hand. (The ring finger is the left hand; a ring finger is either hand.)
- ring fingers
- plural form of ring finger
- ring game
- A game where the chips directly represent money and players are free to leave at any time, in contrast to a poker tournament
- ring games
- plural form of ring game
- ring hollow
- To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing
In his own ears the words he spoke rang hollow, awkward, even impertinent. He could say nothing which did not seem hideously supercilious.
- ring in
- To make a phone call to one's usual place of work
John has just rung in sick. He won't be back til Monday, he says.
- ring of truth
- The trust-inspiring sound, tenor, or impression of being truthful
It is fiction. But it has the absolute ring of truth.
- ring off
- to finish a telephone conversation and disconnect
- ring off the hook
- Of a telephone, to ring constantly or excessively
I placed the advertisement yesterday, and the phone has been ringing off the hook ever since.
- ring one's bell
- To strike or bump one's own head with a strong blow, especially with concussive force
- ring out
- To sound very loudly
A terrifying volley of pistol-shots rings out—cracks sharply; ripples spread— silence laps smooth over sound.
- ring out
- To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number
You can ring out if you dial 9 first and wait for the tone before dialling the number.
- ring pulls
- plural form of ring pull
- ring rat
- A promiscuous person, often a young female, who attends professional wrestling events primarily to seek sexual liaisons with wrestlers and other performers
- ring road
- A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation
- ring round
- To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something
- ring someone's bell
- To physically traumatize someone with a strong blow, especially a concussive blow to the head
Redman took Kenny Lofton's left shoulder on his jaw and saw every color of the rainbow but teal. That sent me down. I was kinda dizzy, Redman said . . . You take a shot like that, it's going to ring your bell a bit..
- ring species
- A biological species consisting of overlapping subgroups, each of which can interbreed with the next, but which cannot freely interbreed when taken as a whole
Ring species demonstrate that can interbreed with is not transitive.
- ring stand
- An item of laboratory equipment which consists of a metal pole with a solid, firm base, used to hold, or clamp, laboratory glassware and other equipment in place, so that they do not fall down or come apart
- ring sting
- Irritation of the anus ("ring") as a result of eating spicy food
- ring system
- The combined system or structure formed by all of the rings orbiting a planet
- ring the changes
- To enliven by varying combinations
- ring the changes
- To run through possible variations
- ring the changes
- To make patterned sound sequences on bells, starting and ending on the same tone
- ring the changes
- To substitute bad money for good
- ring theoretic
- Having to do with ring theory
- ring theoretical
- Having to do with ring theory
- ring theorist
- An algebraist who specializes in ring theory
- ring theorists
- plural form of ring theorist
- ring theory
- The branch of mathematics dealing with the algebraic structure of rings
- ring topologies
- plural form of ring topology
- ring topology
- A network topology in which, in the physical case, every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes: one node designated as upstream and the other as downstream. A given node receives data from its upstream node and sends data to its downstream node
- ring true
- To seem to be correct, or plausible
His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true, to me.
- ring up
- To telephone, to call someone on the telephone
- ring up
- To enter a payment into a cash register, or till in a shop
- ring-bark
- The bark removed by ring-barking
- ring-bark
- To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark
Six or eight inches above this graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the ring-bark left for shade for two or three weeks .
- ring-bark
- The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking
- ring-finger
- Alternative spelling of ring finger
- ring-in
- A replacement, made at the last minute, usually in a sporting context
- ring-in
- An outsider
But I couldn't get into an underground contract party because I'm a ring-tail, or ring-in. That means an outsider, one not born in Broken Hill.
- ring-man
- the ring finger
- ring-neck
- having (a) colored ring(s) around the neck, notably said of animal species
- ring-necked parakeet
- a species of parakeet, Psittacula krameri, prevalent in Asia and famous for escaping domestication and establishing wild populations in Britain
- ring-pull
- Alternative spelling of ring pull
- ring-tailed
- carrying its flexible tail in a circular or spiraling form
- ring-tailed
- having a tail marked with differently colored rings
- ring-tailed lemur
- a species of lemur, Lemur catta, from Madagascar; it has a black-and-white ringed tail
- ring-tailed macauco
- The ring-tailed lemur
- ring-tailed macaucos
- plural form of ring-tailed macauco
- ring-theoretic
- Attributive form of ring theoretic
- ring-theoretical
- Attributive form of ring theoretical
- ring a bell
- (deyim) [for something] to cause someone to remember something or for it to seem familiar
- ring a faint bell
- (deyim) [for something] to cause someone to remember something or for it to seem familiar
- ring a familiar bell
- (deyim) [for something] to cause someone to remember something or for it to seem familiar
- ring a ring a roses
- (Oyunlar) Children's singing game, known throughout the English-speaking world, and with many continental analogues. Nowadays, the game tends to be one of the first taught to children by adults, rather than being learnt from other children, and is therefore considered babyish by school-age children. The first known published versions are from the 1880s, although an American forerunner (Ring a ring a rosie A bottle full of posie All the girls in our town Ring for little Josie) is reported from 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. Early writers on the Plague do not mention the rhyme or, indeed, sneezing as a symptom of the disease, and the rhyme only appears 200 years later. The earlier folklore collectors do not make the connection between the rhyme and the Plague, and the idea appears to date only from the 1960s, but is now so widely believed as to be unshakable.See also *SNEEZING. Opie and Opie, 1985: 220-7; Gomme, 1898: ii. 108-11
- ring armour
- Ring armour (ring mail) is an assumed type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation
- ring mail
- Ring armour (ring mail) is an assumed type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation
- Ring a Ring O'Roses
- {i} nursery rhyme; game played by children in which the players dance around in a circle to the tune of a nursery rhyme and when they hear the lyrics "all fall down" they all crouch down low
- Ring a ring o' roses
- a children's singing game in which the children join hands and dance round in a circle singing: Ring a ring o'roses/A pocket full of posies/A-tishoo! A-tishoo!/We all fall down. People believe it comes from the time when there was a plague in London (=a very serious infectious disease, quickly causing death to large numbers of people), because when people coughed and sneezed, saying 'atishoo', it was a sign that they had caught the plague
- ring 1
- If you say that someone's words ring in your ears or ring in your head, you mean that you remember them very clearly, usually when you would prefer to forget them. She shivered as the sound of that man's abuse rang in her ears
- ring 2
- 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
- ring a bell
- bring back a memory
- ring girl
- a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights
- ring rot
- disease of tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum
- ring up
- see ring 1
- ring-necked parakeet
- African parakeet
- ringed
- Simple past tense and past participle of ring
- ringer
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer
Good ringers, pull your best, quoth he.
- ringer
- In the game of horseshoes, when the horseshoe lands around the pole
- ringer
- A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team
- ringer
- A top performer
- ringer
- A stockman; a drover
- ringer
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other. (Now usually in the phrase dead ringer)
- ringer
- A person with orange or red hair, often used as an insult
- ringing
- Present participle of ring
- ringing
- Made forcefully; powerful
- ringlike
- Like a ring; round or nearly so
The worm had a number of ringlike bands around its body.
- rings
- plural form of ring
- rings
- A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar
- rings
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ring
- rung
- A crosspiece between legs of a chair
- rung
- Past participle of ring
- rung
- A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder
- ringer
- {n} one who rings, one skilled in ringing
- rung
- {n} a ship's floor timber
- rang
- of Ring, v
- rang
- Rang is the past tense of ring. Past tense of ring. the past tense of ring
- ring binder
- A ring binder is a file with hard covers, which you can insert pages into. The pages are held in by metal rings on a bar attached to the inside of the file
- ring finger
- {i} fourth finger, finger between the pinky and middle fingers
- ring finger
- Your ring finger is the third finger of your left or right hand, without counting your thumb. In some countries, people wear a ring on this finger to show that they are engaged or married. The third finger of the left hand. the finger, next to the smallest finger on your hand, that you traditionally wear your wedding ring on index finger
- ring finger
- the third finger (especially of the left hand)
- ring in
- inform, give information
- ring in
- If you ring in, you phone a place, such as the place where you work. Cecil wasn't there, having rung in to say he was taking the day off
- ring off
- finish a telephone conversation, hang up the phone
- ring off
- When you ring off, you put down the receiver at the end of a telephone call. She had rung off before he could press her for an answer
- ring out
- If a sound rings out, it can be heard loudly and clearly. A single shot rang out
- ring out
- sound loudly; "a shot rang out
- ring out
- sound loudly; "a shot rang out"
- ring road
- a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town
- ring road
- a road encircling a built-up area used as a bypass or as service road by the area
- ring road
- A ring road is a road that goes round the edge of a town so that traffic does not have to go through the town centre. a road that goes around a large town to keep the traffic away from the centre bypass
- ring road
- Road encircling an urban area to enable traffic to avoid the centre of that area
- ring road
- (British) beltway, highway that encircles a city
- ring road
- Theoretically, a circular road built around the perimiter of a built-up area as a bypass for traffic from all directions, the idea being to distribute traffic around the edge rather than squeeze it through the centre In American terms, a beltway In practice, many ring roads in Britain are incomplete - often planned that way - not just with coastal towns but in some cases because traffic volumes on the 'gap' side are not high enough, or for more complex political reasons The name 'ring road' still applies In some cases called "circulars" See also orbital
- ring tone
- {i} sound made by a telephone when it rings (term which is used mostly to refer to the customisable sounds available on cellular phones)
- ring tone
- The ring tone is the sound made by a telephone, especially a mobile phone, when it rings. They offer 70 hours' standby time, 2hr 50min talk time, and 15 ring tones
- ring up
- to perform and record a sale on a cash register; "Sally rang up Eve's purchase of tomatoes
- ring up
- to perform and record a sale on a cash register; "Sally rang up Eve's purchase of tomatoes"
- ring up
- make a phone call to; record a sale on a cash register
- ring up
- If a company rings up an amount of money, usually a large amount of money, it makes that amount of money in sales or profits. The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales
- ring up
- If a shop assistant rings up a sale on a cash register, he or she presses the keys in order to record the amount that is being spent. She was ringing up her sale on an ancient cash register
- ringed
- Marked with rings, circles or loops
- ringed
- adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed"
- ringed
- Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded
- ringed
- shaped like a ring
- ringed
- Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings
- ringed
- wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife"- Tennyson
- ringed
- An engine which uses a piston with a piston ring Compare to ABC or ABN Best used in dusty environments, a ringed engine is less susceptible to damage from contaminants in the fuel/air mixture, but does not provide the higher compression ratio of the ABC/ABN engines
- ringed
- Provided with a ring or rings (Said of the falcon )
- ringer
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- ringer
- A bell ringer is someone who rings church bells or hand bells as a hobby
- ringer
- If you say that one person is a ringer or a dead ringer for another, you mean that they look exactly like each other
- ringer
- A team player who is rated to low for the level he is capable of playing
- ringer
- A bell in a telephone which indicates if a telephone call is coming in
- ringer
- One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells
- ringer
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
- ringer
- A good player who enters a competition under less than truthful circumstances, usually by claiming a handicap that is much higher than it should be Also known as a sandbagger
- ringer
- A crowbar
- ringer
- A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it
- ringer
- T-shirt, with solid body featuring ribbed crew neck (and sleeve bands) in a contrasting color
- ringer
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- ringer
- a person who is almost identical to another
- ringer
- The device that produces the electronic ringing sound in your telephone
- ringer
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses a person who is almost identical to another
- ringer
- {i} person or thing that rings; person or thing that encircles; dead ringer; double, simulacrum; person who enters or is substituted in a competition with the intent to defraud or deceive; (USA & Canada) marble game in which the players put marbles in cross shape inside the center of a circle and each player must knock as many marbles outside the circle by shooting with another marble; horseshoe thrown over a stake; one who rings church bell
- ringing
- Analagous to the ringing of a bell, it is the rise and decay time before and after the transducer reaches maximum amplitude Expressed as the mechanical Q of the transducer which is the number of cycles it takes to get up to 90% of maximum amplitude, or down to 10% above zero amplitude
- ringing
- The tendency of a filter to oscillate for a time when a transient waveform is applied to it