ring
- Proper noun. (surname, from Middle English) for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.
- Noun. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- Noun. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.
- Noun. (British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- Noun. A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion 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. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring, prostitution ring, etc.
- Noun. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- Noun. (UK) Burner.
- Noun. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
- 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. (British) a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- 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. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- Verb. (transitive) To surround or enclose.
- Verb. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
- Verb. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- Verb. (context, falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- Noun. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- Noun. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- Noun. (colloquial) A telephone call.
- Verb. (ergative) Of a bell, to produce sound; to make a bell produce sound.
- 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. (colloquial, British) To telephone someone.
- Verb. (ambitransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- 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.
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