ring (noun)

a characteristic sound

"it has the ring of sincerity"

ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring (noun)

a toroidal shape

"a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke"

hoop, ring (noun)

a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

"there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"

closed chain, ring (noun)

(chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop

gang, pack, ring, mob (noun)

an association of criminals

"police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

ring, ringing, tintinnabulation (noun)

the sound of a bell ringing

"the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe

ring (noun)

a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle

ring, band (noun)

jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger

"she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band"

band, ring (verb)

a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

ring, peal (verb)

sound loudly and sonorously

"the bells rang"

resound, echo, ring, reverberate (verb)

ring or echo with sound

"the hall resounded with laughter"

ring, knell (verb)

make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification

"Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"

call, telephone, call up, phone, ring (verb)

get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

"I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

surround, environ, ring, skirt, border (verb)

extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

"The forest surrounds my property"

ring, band (verb)

attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify

"ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"

ring (Noun)

A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

ring (Noun)

A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.

ring

A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

ring

A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ring

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.

ring

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring, prostitution ring, etc.

ring

A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

ring

Burner.

ring

A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.

ring (Verb)

To surround or enclose.

ring (Verb)

To make an incision around; to girdle.

ring

To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

ring

To rise in the air spirally.

ring (Noun)

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

ring (Noun)

A pleasant or correct sound.

ring

A telephone call.

ring (Verb)

Of a bell, to produce sound; to make a bell produce sound.

ring (Verb)

To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

ring

Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

ring

To telephone someone.

ring

to resound, reverberate, echo

ring (Noun)

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.

ring (Noun)

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.

ring

A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a krouek.

ring

An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

ring

a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.

ring

A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

ring

In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

Ring (ProperNoun)

for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.

Ring

A finger ring is a circular band worn as a type of ornamental jewellery around the finger; it is the most common current meaning of the word ring. Other types of metal rings worn as ornaments are also called rings, such as earrings, arm rings, toe rings and neck rings. Rings can be of almost any material: metal, plastic, wood, bone, glass, gemstone to name a few. They may be set with a stone of some sort, which is often a precious or semi-precious gemstone such as diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald, but can also be of almost any material.

ring

In molecular biology, a RING (short for Really Interesting New Gene) finger domain is a protein structural domain of zinc finger type which contains a C3HC4 amino acid motif which binds two zinc cations (seven cysteines and one histidine arranged non-consecutively). This protein domain contains 40 to 60 amino acids. Many proteins containing a RING finger play a key role in the ubiquitination pathway.