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1.NounA solid object in the shape of a circle.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc."His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.; onion rings; Lick my ring!"
2.NounA circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
3.NounA round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc."His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement."
4.NounA bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
5.NounA burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
6.NounA piece of food in the shape of a ring."onion rings"
7.NounIn a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
8.NounThe rectum, anus, or anal sphincters."Lick my ring!"
9.NounAn 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.NounA flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
11.NounA group of objects arranged in a circle.
A circular group of people or objects."a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood"
12.NounA circular group of people or objects."a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood"
13.NounA formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
14.NounA large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
15.NounA long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something."a ring of grime around the bathtub"
16.NounEllipsis of webring.
17.NounA 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.
The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
18.NounThe open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
19.NounAn exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices."a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)"
20.NounA group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule."a benzene ring"
21.NounA planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
22.NounA diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
23.NounAn old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
24.NounA hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
25.NounEither of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
26.NounThe twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
27.NounA 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.
28.VerbTo enclose or surround."The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas."
29.VerbTo make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it."They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year."
30.VerbTo attach a ring to, especially for identification."We managed to ring 22 birds this morning."
31.VerbTo surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring."to ring a pig’s snout"
32.VerbTo rise in the air spirally.
33.VerbTo steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
34.VerbTo ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence , to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
35.NounThe resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it."The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.; The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air."
36.NounA pleasant or correct sound."The name has a nice ring to it."
37.NounA sound or appearance that is characteristic of something."Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood."
38.NounA telephone call."I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands."
39.NounAny loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
40.NounA chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned."St Mary's has a ring of eight bells."
41.VerbOf a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound."The bells were ringing in the town."
42.VerbTo make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound."The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel."
43.VerbTo produce (a sound) by ringing."They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells."
44.VerbTo produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound."Whose mobile phone is ringing?"
45.VerbOf something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound."That does not ring true."
46.VerbTo telephone (someone)."I will ring you when we arrive."
47.Verbto resound, reverberate, echo.
48.VerbTo produce music with bells.
49.VerbTo ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
50.VerbTo repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
51.NounAn 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."The set of integers,
Z
{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} }
, is the prototypical ring."
52.NounAn 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."The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set
2
Z
{\displaystyle 2\mathbb {Z} }
of even integers to be a ring."
53.NounA family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
54.NounA family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.