Usually means: Circular band worn on finger.
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We found 66 dictionaries that define the word ring:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. ring: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ring, ring, ring, the ring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ring, ring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ring, the ring: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ring: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ring, ring, the ring: Wordnik
  7. ring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ring, Ring, Ring: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Ring, ring: Wiktionary
  10. ring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ring: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. The ring, ring: Dictionary.com
  14. ring (n.), ring (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. RING (Bulgaria), Ring (Baxter novel), Ring (Bulgaria), Ring (Cardi B song), Ring (Gary Burton album), Ring (Glasser album), Ring (Miliyah Kato album), Ring (Selena Gomez song), Ring (Stephen Baxter novel), Ring (Suzuki novel), Ring (The Connells album), Ring (abstract algebra), Ring (album), Ring (algebra), Ring (band), Ring (book), Ring (chemistry), Ring (company), Ring (computer security), Ring (diacritic), Ring (disambiguation), Ring (film), Ring (finger), Ring (franchise), Ring (jewellery), Ring (mathematics), Ring (novel series), Ring (software), Ring (telephone), Ring (video game), Ring, The Ring (Angel), The Ring (Chuck), The Ring (South Park), The Ring (album), The Ring (film series), The Ring (franchise), The Ring (magazine), The Ring (manga), The Ring, The ring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ring: Rhymezone
  20. Ring (m), ring, ring (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Ring (on phone): Britih-American Dictionary
  23. Ring: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. ring, the ring: Free Dictionary
  26. ring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Ring (of truth): The Word Detective
  28. The ring, ring: Dictionary/thesaurus
  29. ring: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. Ring: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Ring: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. Ring (disambiguation), ring: Legal dictionary
  5. Ring (disambiguation), ring: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Ring (computer security), Ring (disambiguation), Ring (telephone), ring: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ring: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Ring (disambiguation), ring: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. RING: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. ring: Idioms
  7. ring: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ring: Easton Bible
  2. Ring: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Ring: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. -ring, ring, ring: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ring, ring: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ring: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. ring: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ring: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ring: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. ring: Lighting Design Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
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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