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ring
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)
- (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (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.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- 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.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- 1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus
- 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.
- 1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- (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
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 168.
- (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.
- 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (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)
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
- (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.
- 1919, Popular Science (volume 95, number 4, page 31)
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (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".
- A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories
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)
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
- 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)
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (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."
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- (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)
- (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.
- (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
- Euclidean domain
- principal ideal domain
- unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain
- integral domain
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)
- (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)
- 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
- taro
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Balinese
Preposition
ring
- in, at (basa alus)
- Synonym: di (basa biasa)
Cimbrian
Adjective
ring
- (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
- 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)
- ring
- circle
- halo
- hoop
- 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)
- (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)
Inflection
Etymology 3
See ringe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ren?/, [?æ??]
Verb
ring
- 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)
- ring, hollow circular object
- (gymnastics) ring
- 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)
- 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)
- (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
- (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
- boat
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [???]
Verb
ring
- singular imperative of ringen
- (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
- (intransitive) to swing, to rock
- Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik
- (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)
- (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)
- (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
- ring,
- a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- Synonyms: cincin, gelang
- boxing ring.
- a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- (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)
- ring; a circular piece of material
- The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
ring
- 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)
- ring; a circular piece of material
- The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
Derived terms
Verb
ring
- 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
- 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
- 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
- (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)
- Alternative form of ringue
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English ring.
Noun
r?ng m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- 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)
- (boxing) ring
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish ringer, from Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.
Noun
ring c
- ring; a circular piece of material
- The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
- (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
- (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
- (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
- 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
- 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)
- ring, circle
- ring (jewelry)
Derived terms
- ringje
- earring
Further reading
- “ring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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isofuran
English
Alternative forms
- isofurane
Etymology
iso- +? furan
Noun
isofuran (plural isofurans)
- (biochemistry) Any of various nonclassic eicosanoids formed nonenzymatically by free radical mediated peroxidation of arachidonic acid, similar to the isoprostanes but with a substituted tetrahydrofuran ring.
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