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▸ noun: A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
▸ noun: (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
▸ noun: (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
▸ noun: (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
▸ noun: In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
▸ noun: (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
▸ noun: A circular group of people or objects.
▸ noun: (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
▸ noun: (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
▸ noun: A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
▸ noun: An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
▸ noun: (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
▸ noun: (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
▸ noun: (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
▸ noun: (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
▸ noun: (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
▸ noun: (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
▸ noun: (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
▸ noun: (networking) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To enclose or surround.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
▸ verb: (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
▸ verb: (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
▸ verb: (Australia, transitive) 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.
▸ noun: The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
▸ noun: (colloquial) A telephone call.
▸ noun: Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
▸ noun: A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
▸ verb: (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
▸ verb: (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
▸ verb: To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
▸ verb: (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
▸ noun: (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
▸ noun: A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.
▸ noun: A parish of County Waterford, Ireland.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.
▸ noun: (Internet) Short for webring. [(Internet, dated) A collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.]
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engagement ring,
wedding ring,
promise ring,
cocktail ring,
statement ring,
eternity ring,
signet ring,
class ring,
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