ring

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A solid object in the shape of a circle.

2. 2

   A group of objects arranged in a circle.

   • a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
   • And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.
   • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
3. 3

   A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.

   • a ring of grime around the bathtub
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   1. 4

      Ellipsis of webring.

   2. 5

      A place where some sports or exhibitions take place

      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.

      • Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
   3. 6

      An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

      • a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
      • the ruling ring at Constantinople
      • It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
   4. 7

      A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

      • a benzene ring
   5. 8

      A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

   6. 9

      A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter

      A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

   7. 10

      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
   8. 11

      A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used…

      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.
   9. 12

      Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

   10. 13

       The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

   11. 14

       A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on…

       A 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.

   12. 15

       To enclose or surround.

       • The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
       • Today, when stepping off the train, you're presented with a bright and airy concourse that's ringed with a variety of facilities.
   13. 16

       To make an incision around

       To 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.
       • The ironbark trees are "rung" at a certain height top and bottom, and the bark detached in one sheet; it is then wetted, and laid out flat on the ground, huge stones being placed to keep it from rolling up again.
   14. 17

       To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

       • We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
       • Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
   15. 18

       To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

       • to ring a pig’s snout
       • Ring these fingers with thy household worms.
   16. 19

       To rise in the air spirally.

       • […] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!
   17. 20

       To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

   18. 21

       To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place

       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.

       • ‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’
   19. 22

       The 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.
   20. 23

       A pleasant or correct sound.

       • The name has a nice ring to it.
   21. 24

       A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

       • Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
   22. 25

       A telephone call.

       • I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
   23. 26

       Any loud sound

       Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

       • the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
   24. 27

       A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

       • St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
       • as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
   25. 28

       Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

       • The bells were ringing in the town.
   26. 29

       To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

       • The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
       • The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
   27. 30

       To produce (a sound) by ringing.

       • They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
   28. 31

       To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

       • Whose mobile phone is ringing?
   29. 32

       Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

       • That does not ring true.
   30. 33

       To telephone (someone).

       • I will ring you when we arrive.
   31. 34

       to resound, reverberate, echo.

       • […] And many an old philosophy ⁠On Argive heights divinely sang, ⁠And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady.
   32. 35

       To produce music with bells.

       • Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing
   33. 36

       To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)

       • The checkout girl rang it into his total, and he paid the bill.
       • . The new cashier rang something twice and had to call for the manager to fix the register.
   34. 37

       To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

   35. 38

       An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations

       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.

       • The set of integers, #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;, is the prototypical ring.
   36. 39

       An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the…

       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.

       • The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; of even integers to be a ring.
   37. 40

       A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.

   38. 41

       A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.

   39. 42

       A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.

   40. 43

       A parish of County Waterford, Ireland.

   41. 44

       An unincorporated community in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United…

       An unincorporated community in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.

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• neighborred ring
• neighborpseudo-ring
• neighborrng
• neighborsemiring
• neighboralgebra over a field
• neighborfield
• neighborEuclidean domain
• neighborprincipal ideal domain
• neighborunique factorization domain
• neighborNoetherian domain
• neighborintegral domain
• neighborcommutative ring