English Explanatory Dictionary

ring

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A solid object in the shape of a circle.
  2. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
  3. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
  4. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
  5. A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
  6. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  7. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
  8. The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
  9. 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.
  10. A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
  11. A group of objects arranged in a circle.
  12. A circular group of people or objects.
verb
  1. To enclose or surround.
  2. To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
  3. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  4. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  5. To rise in the air spirally.
  6. To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
  7. 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.
noun
  1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
  2. A pleasant or correct sound.
  3. A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
  4. A telephone call.
  5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
verb
  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. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  6. To telephone (someone).
  7. to resound, reverberate, echo.
  8. To produce music with bells.
  9. To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
  10. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
noun
  1. A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
  2. A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
name
  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.
  2. A parish of County Waterford, Ireland.
  3. An unincorporated community in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.

Pronunciation

rĭng /ɹɪŋ/ en-us-ring.ogg /ˈɹɪŋɡ/

Word forms

ring rings ringing ringed rang rung

Etymology

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range. Cognates * West Frisian ring * Low German Ring * Dutch ring * German Ring * Swedish ring * Finnish rengas More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (whence Bulgarian кръг (krǎg), Polish krąg, Russian круг (krug)).

Synonyms

annulus hoop torus rng

Related words

red ring

Derived words

abdominal inguinal ring abdominal ring abstinence ring algebra over a ring alternate ring hitching anchor ring annual ring A ring armring Artin ring bathtub ring belly button ring belly ring benzene ring betting ring big ring blogring Borromean rings boxing ring brass ring bubble ring bull ring cake ring calamari ring captive bead ring chainring chastity ring chatter ring cinnamon ring circus ring Claddagh ring class ring claw ring cock ring coffee ring coffee ring effect collisional ring galaxy commitment ring common three-ring constriction ring syndrome coring cornice ring Cox ring cramp ring curtain ring decoder ring Dedekind ring diamond ring dinner ring discrete valuation ring division ring dope-ring D ring D-ring drug ring earring egg ring Einstein ring engagement ring enring

Translations

Bulgarian: кръг Bulgarian: ринг Bulgarian: аре́на Galician: renque Galician: rolda Galician: circo Spanish: corro Spanish: corrillo Spanish: rolde Spanish: ring Spanish: cuadrilátero Spanish: pista Arabic: حَلْبَة Armenian: ռինգ Belarusian: рынг Belarusian: арэ́на Belarusian: мане́ж Belarusian: манэ́ж Breton: ring Catalan: ring Catalan: pista Chinese Mandarin: 拳擊臺 /拳擊台 /拳击台 Chinese Mandarin: 擂臺 /擂台 Czech: ring Dutch: ring Estonian: ring Faroese: ringur Finnish: kehä Finnish: areena French: ring French: manège French: piste Georgian: რინგი German: Ring German: Manege Greek: αρένα Greek: ρινγκ Greek: παλαίστρα Greek: πίστα Hebrew: זִירָה Hindi: घेरा Hungarian: szorító Hungarian: ring Hungarian: porond Hungarian: aréna Hungarian: manézs Irish: fáinne Irish: cró troda Italian: ring Japanese: リング Khmer: រេញ Khmer: សៃវៀន Korean: 링 Northern Kurdish: rîng Lao: ເວທີມວຍ Norwegian Bokmål: ring Polish: ring Portuguese: ringue Portuguese: picadeiro Russian: ринг Russian: аре́на Russian: мане́ж Serbo-Croatian: ри̏нг Serbo-Croatian: rȉng Slovak: ring Slovene: ring Swedish: ring Telugu: గోదా Telugu: బరి Thai: สังเวียน Thai: เวที Turkish: ring Ukrainian: ринг Ukrainian: аре́на Ukrainian: мане́ж Arabic: طَرَقَ جَرَس Arabic: رَنَّ Arabic: سرسر Armenian: զանգել Armenian: շառաչել Armenian: զրնգալ Azerbaijani: səslənmək Azerbaijani: səsləndirmək Basque: tirrina jo Belarusian: звані́ць Belarusian: звіне́ць Bulgarian: звънтя́ Bulgarian: звъня Catalan: dringar Catalan: trucar Catalan: fer sonar Chinese Mandarin: 按鈴 /按铃 Chinese Mandarin: 響 /响 Choctaw: ola Czech: zvonit Dutch: bellen Dutch: klinken Dutch: rinkelen Dutch: luiden Dutch: weergalmen Dutch: beieren Esperanto: sonoradi Esperanto: sonori Estonian: helisema Finnish: soida Finnish: soittaa French: sonner Friulian: sunâ Galician: soar Galician: repenicar Galician: tocar Georgian: რეკვა German: läuten German: klingeln Greek: χτυπάω
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