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ring

გამოთქმა: /rɪŋ/

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Universal
  • 1a small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority: a diamond ring he had a silver ring on one finger a bishop’s ring
  • Ornithology, British an aluminium strip secured round a bird’s leg to identify it: I put a numbered ring on each bird’s leg
  • 2a ring-shaped or circular object:an inflatable rubber ring fried onion rings
  • a circular marking or pattern:she had black rings round her eyes
  • a group of people or things arranged in a circle:a ring of trees everyone sat in a ring, holding hands
  • a circular or spiral course:they were dancing energetically in a ring
  • chiefly British a flat circular device forming part of a gas or electric hob, providing heat from below:a gas ring
  • Astronomy a thin band or disc of rock and ice particles round a planet: Saturn’s rings
  • short for tree ring.
  • short for ring road.through traffic is diverted along the outer ring
  • [usually as modifier] Archaeology a circular prehistoric earthwork, typically consisting of a bank and ditch:a ring ditch
  • vulgar slang a person’s anus.
  • 3an enclosed space, surrounded by seating for spectators, in which a sport, performance, or show takes place:a circus ring
  • a roped enclosure for boxing or wrestling: a boxing ring he was knocking me all around the ring
  • (the ring) the profession, sport, or institution of boxing: Fogerty quit the ring to play professional rugby league
  • 4a group of people engaged in a shared enterprise, especially one involving illegal or unscrupulous activity:the police had been investigating the drug ring
  • 5 Chemistry a number of atoms bonded together to form a closed loop in a molecule: a benzene ring
  • 6 Mathematics a set of elements with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, the second being distributive over the first and associative.

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Universal
  • 1surround (someone or something), especially for protection or containment:the courthouse was ringed with police
  • form a line around the edge of (something circular):dark shadows ringed his eyes
  • chiefly British draw a circle round (something), especially to focus attention on it:an area of Soho had been ringed in red
  • 2 Ornithology, British put an aluminium strip around the leg of (a bird) for subsequent identification: only a small proportion of warblers are caught and ringed
  • put a circular band through the nose of (a bull, pig, or other farm animal) to lead or otherwise control it: in the mid 1850s there were fines for not ringing swine
  • 3 [with object] informal fraudulently change the identity of (a motor vehicle), typically by changing its registration plate: there may be an organization which has ringed the stolen car to be resold
    [ 1960s: from an earlier slang use in the general sense 'exchange' (compare with ringer1)]

hold the ring

monitor a dispute or conflict without becoming involved in it: the judge is there to hold the ring impartially and to direct the jury on the law

run (or make) rings round (or around) someone

informal outclass or outwit someone very easily: I had to be very firm with her, or she’d have run rings around me

throw one's hat in the ring

see hat.

ringed

adjective
[in combination]:the five-ringed Olympic emblem

ringless

adjective

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