different between ring vs strike

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English stryken, from Old English str?can, from Proto-Germanic *str?kan?, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /st?a?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (archaic) strucken)

1. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

2. (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
   1. (transitive) To hit.
   2. (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
   3. (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
   4. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
   5. (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

   6. (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.

   7. (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
   8. (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
   9. (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

3. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

4. (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
   1. (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
   2. (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
   3. (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

   4. (transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.
   5. (intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

      Synonym: strike work

      • 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)

        Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]

   6. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
   7. (transitive) To create an impression.
   8. (sports) To score a goal.
   9. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
   10. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

   11. (intransitive, Britain, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
   12. (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
5. To touch; to act by appulse.
6. (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
   1. (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
   2. (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
   3. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
      • 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)

        The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.

7. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
8. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
9. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

10. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
11. To make and ratify.

12. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
13. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
14. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

15. (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
16. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
17. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
18. To balance (a ledger or account).

Usage notes

• The past participle of strike is usually struck (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or When the clock had struck twelve, etc.); stricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in transitive constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action, especially in the phrases "stricken with/by (an affliction)" or "stricken (something) from the record" (e.g. The Court has stricken the statement from the record, or The city was stricken with disease, etc.). Except for in these contexts, stricken is almost never found in informal or colloquial speech.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

2. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
   • 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:

     It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait" she was gone.

3. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
4. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
5. A blow or application of physical force against something.
   • 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes

     […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.

   • 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught

6. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
7. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
8. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

9. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
10. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
11. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
12. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
13. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
14. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
15. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
16. The discovery of a source of something.
17. The strike plate of a door.
18. (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
    • 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)

      I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up.

Antonyms

• (work stoppage): industrial peace; lockout

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• German: streiken

References

Further reading

• strike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues?^[1], volume 7, page 12

Anagrams

• Kister, kiters, trikes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?ajk/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) a strike

Derived terms

• striker

Related terms

• spare

Italian

Noun

strike m (invariable)

1. strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English strike.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?st?ajk/, /is.?t?aj.ki/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
2. (baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)

Spanish

Etymology

From English strike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?aik/, [?st??ai?k]

• IPA^(key): /es?t?aik/, [es?t??ai?k]

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (baseball) strike

2. (bowling) strike