Definition of "ring"
- noun
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.
A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion 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.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring, prostitution ring, etc.
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
Burner.
A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
A pleasant or correct sound.
A telephone call.
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.
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.
- verb
To surround or enclose.
To make an incision around; to girdle.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To rise in the air spirally.
Of a bell, to produce sound; to make a bell produce sound.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
To telephone someone.
To resound, reverberate, echo.
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