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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?, IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: ay, aye, I

Etymology 1

From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, y?e, ey?e, from Old English ?age (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ok?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”).

See also Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic ??? (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ???????? (ophthalmós, “eye”), Armenian ??? (akn), Avestan ????????????? (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit ????? (ák?i). Related to ogle.

The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ?agan, nominative and accusative plural of Old English ?age (“eye”).

Noun

eye (plural eyes or (obsolete or dialectal) eyen)

1. An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eye

   Hyponym: ocellus

2. The visual sense.

3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.

4. Attention, notice.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.

   Synonym: perceptiveness
6. A meaningful stare or look.

7. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
10. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.

    Synonym: eyelet

11. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
12. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
13. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
14. A reproductive bud in a potato.
15. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
16. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.
17. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
18. Tinge; shade of colour.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours

      Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

19. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
20. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
21. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
22. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
23. (usually in the plural) View or opinion.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ai

Translations

See eye/translations § Noun.

See also

• tapetum lucidum

References

• Eye (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• eye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)

1. (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).

   After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.

   They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.

   • 1859, Fraser's Magazine (volume 60, page 671)

     Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.

   Synonym: gaze (poetic)

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.

Derived terms

• eye up
• ineye

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye.

Noun

eye (plural eyes)

1. A brood.

   an eye of pheasants

Anagrams

• Yee, yee

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English e?e, from Proto-West Germanic *agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of awe.

Alternative forms

• eie, e?e, e??e, ey?e, ei?e

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?ej?/
• IPA^(key): /??i?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?i?(?)

Noun

eye (uncountable)

1. awe, reverence, worshipfulness
2. horror, panic
3. that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
4. that which incites awe
5. that which incites terror

Related terms

• eifulle (rare)
• eiliche (rare)

Descendants

• English: ey (obsolete)

References

• “eie, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.

Etymology 2

Noun

eye

1. Alternative form of eie

Tatar

Adverb

eye

1. very, of course, emphatic adverb

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Interjection

eye

1. hey!

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[5] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, page 126

Tocharian B

Noun

eye ?

1. sheep

Umbundu

Pronoun

eye

1. (third-person singular pronoun)

See also

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?ng, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: wring

Etymology 1

From Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreng?-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with West Frisian ring, Low German Ring, Dutch ring, German Ring, Swedish ring, also Finnish rengas. Doublet of rink.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
   1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

      Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus

   2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
   3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
   4. (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
   5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
   6. (historical) 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.
   7. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
   1. A circular group of people or objects.
   2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
   3. (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

4. 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.
   • 1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus

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

   1. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
6. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
   • 1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England

     the ruling ring at Constantinople

   • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston

     It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
7. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

8. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
9. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
10. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 168.

      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

11. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
    • 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)

      Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.

12. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
13. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Translations

Gallery

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.

3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
   • 1919, Popular Science (volume 95, number 4, page 31)

     Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.

4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
   • A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories

     Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.

   • 2019 (10 December), Ross McCarthy, Digbeth chop shop gang jailed over £2m stolen car racket (in Birmingham Live) [2]

     They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".

Derived terms

• ringer
• ring-fence, ringfence

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrin?an (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijan?. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

4. (colloquial) A telephone call.

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

   • the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears

6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

   • as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world

Derived terms

• give a ring
• ringtone
• ringback

Translations

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)

1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.

   They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

6. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

7. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.

   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     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."

8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing

9. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892). Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (algebra) 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. (algebra) 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.

Hypernyms

• pseudo-ring
• semiring

Hyponyms

• algebra over a field
• commutative ring
  • integral domain
    • unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain
      • principal ideal domain
        • Euclidean domain
          • field

Meronyms

• group of units
• ideal

Derived terms

• Boolean ring
• polynomial ring

Translations

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ring (plural rings)

1. (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.

Hyponyms

• algebra (of sets)
• ?-ring

Translations

References

Anagrams

• NGRI, girn, grin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/

Noun

ring (plural ringe)

1. ring, hollow circular object

Atong (India)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

ring

1. taro

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Balinese

Preposition

ring

1. in, at (basa alus)

   Synonym: di (basa biasa)

Cimbrian

Adjective

ring

1. (of weight) light

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophone: rynk

Noun

ring m inan

1. ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension

Further reading

• ring in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ring in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]

Noun

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

1. ring
2. circle
3. halo
4. hoop
5. coil

Inflection

Derived terms

• vielsesring

Etymology 2

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]

Noun

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)

Inflection

Etymology 3

See ringe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringe

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??/
• Hyphenation: ring
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

1. ring, hollow circular object
2. (gymnastics) ring
3. beltway, ring road

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ring
• ? Indonesian: ring

See also

• kring

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German rink. Compare German Ring. See also rõngas.

Noun

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

1. circle

Declension

See also

• rõngas

French

Etymology

From English ring (sense 1) and Dutch ring (sense 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??/

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
2. (Belgium) ring road, beltway

Derived terms

• ring de boxe

Further reading

• “ring” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Garo

Noun

ring

1. boat

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???]

Verb

ring

1. singular imperative of ringen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of ringen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ri??]
• Hyphenation: ring
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (frequentative suffix).

Verb

ring

1. (intransitive) to swing, to rock

   Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik

2. (intransitive, of a ship) to sway, to roll

   Synonyms: ringatózik, ringatódzik, dülöng, dülöngél, himbálódzik, himbálózik

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• ringat

Etymology 2

From English ring.

Noun

ring (plural ringek)

1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)

   Synonym: szorító

Declension

References

Further reading

• (to roll, sway, swing): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (boxing ring): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (in economy, cf. cartel): ring in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring (first-person possessive ringku, second-person possessive ringmu, third-person possessive ringnya)

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of bell.

Etymology 2

From Dutch ring, from Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of langsir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: ring

Noun

ring

1. ring,
   1. a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

      Synonyms: cincin, gelang

   2. boxing ring.
2. (colloquial) circle

   Synonym: lingkaran

Further reading

• “ring” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringer, definite plural ringene)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringe

References

• “ring” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringar, definite plural ringane)

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Derived terms

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringja, ringje, ringa and ringe

References

• “ring” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m

1. ring, circle

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: rinc
  • Dutch: ring
  • Limburgish: rink

Further reading

• “rink”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m

1. ring (object in the shape of a circle)

Descendants

• Middle High German: rinc, ring
  • German: Ring
  • Luxembourgish: Rank
  • Yiddish: ????? (ring)

Polish

Etymology

From English ring, from Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreng?-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?ink/

Noun

ring m inan

1. (boxing) boxing ring

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) ringowy

Further reading

• ring in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ring in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. Alternative form of ringue

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English ring.

Noun

r?ng m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. the ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension

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Spanish

Etymology

From English ring. Doublet of rancho.

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

1. (boxing) ring

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish ringer, from Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring c

1. ring; a circular piece of material
2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
3. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
4. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
5. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
6. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool)

Declension

Derived terms

• vigselring

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ring

1. imperative of ringa.

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ring c (plural ringen, diminutive rinkje)

1. ring, circle
2. ring (jewelry)

Derived terms

• ringje
• earring

Further reading

• “ring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011