Definitions for Ring

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Ring ring

Spelling: [ring]

IPA: /rɪŋ/

Ring is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Ring (ginr).

Definitions for Ring

noun

1. a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
2. anything having the form of such a band:
3. a circular or surrounding line or mark:
4. a circular course:
5. a number of persons or things situated in a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement:
6. the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim.
7. an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition:
8. a bullring.
9. an enclosure in which boxing and wrestling matches take place, usually consisting of a square, canvas-covered platform with surrounding ropes that are supported at each corner by posts.
10. the sport of boxing; prizefighting:
11. (formerly in the U.S., now only in Brit.) an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets.
12. a group of persons cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law:
13. a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course.
14. Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles.
15. annual ring.
16. a circle of bark cut from around a tree.
17. Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form. Compare chain (def 7).
18. Architecture. rowlock (def 1).
19. a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured.
20. Also called spinning ring. Textiles. (in the ring-spinning frame) a circular track of highly polished steel on which the traveler moves and which imparts twists to the yarn by variations in its vertical movement.
21. a unit of measurement of the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch. Also called ring gauge.
22. Automotive, Machinery. piston ring.
23. Mathematics. a set that is closed under the operations of addition and multiplication and that is an Abelian group with respect to addition and an associative semigroup with respect to multiplication and in which the distributive laws relating the two operations hold.
24. a ringing sound, as of a bell or bells:
25. a sound or tone likened to the ringing of a bell:
26. any loud sound; sound continued, repeated, or reverberated:
27. a set or peal of bells.
28. a telephone call:
29. an act or instance of ringing a bell:
30. a characteristic sound, as of a coin.
31. the aspect or impression presented by a statement, an action, etc., taken as revealing a specified inherent quality:
32. a male given name.

Idioms

1. run rings around, to be obviously superior to; surpass; outdo:
2. throw / toss one's hat in / into the ring. hat (def 8).
3. ring a bell. bell1 (def 15).
4. ring down the curtain, to direct that the curtain of a theater be lowered or closed. to lower or close the curtain in front of a stage.
5. ring down the curtain on, to bring to an end:
6. ring the / someone's bell. bell1 (def 16).
7. ring the changes. change (def 39).
8. ring up the curtain, to direct that the curtain of a theater be raised or opened. to raise or open the curtain in front of a stage.
9. ring up the curtain on, to begin; inaugurate; initiate:

Verb phrases

1. ring in, to indicate one's arrival at work by punching in on a time clock. Informal. to introduce artfully or fraudulently:
2. ring off, to terminate a telephone conversation. British Slang. to stop talking. British Slang. to go away.
3. ring out, to indicate one's departure from work by punching out on a time clock. to make a sound or noise; resound:
4. ring up, to register (the amount of a sale) on a cash register. to accomplish or record: Chiefly British. to telephone.

verb (used with object)

1. to surround with a ring; encircle.
2. to form into a ring.
3. to insert a ring through the nose of (an animal).
4. to hem in (animals) by riding or circling about them.
5. to girdle (def 11).
6. (in horseshoes, ringtoss, etc.) to encircle (a stake or peg) with a ring, horseshoe, etc.
7. to cause (a bell or device with a bell) to ring; sound by striking:
8. to produce (sound) by or as if by ringing:
9. to announce or proclaim, usher in or out, summon, signal, etc., by or as if by the sound of a bell:
10. to test (a coin or other metal object) by the sound it produces when struck against something.
11. Chiefly British. to telephone.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a ring or rings.
2. to move in a ring or a constantly curving course:
3. to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck:
4. to make a given impression on the mind; appear:
5. to cause a bell or bells to sound, especially as a summons:
6. to sound loudly; be loud or resonant; resound (often followed by out):
7. to be filled with sound; reecho with sound, as a place.
8. (of the ears) to have the sensation of a continued humming sound.
9. Chiefly British. to telephone.

Origin of Ring

before 900; Middle English; Old English hring; cognate with Dutch, German ring, Old Norse hringr; akin to rank¹

Examples for Ring

To the porter who answered his ring he handed the message to be put off at the first stop.

A helmet fell from his hands on the floor with a ring of steel.

These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.

And soon all of America got to see Ray in the ring with Janay, hitting her with a shot in the jaw.

In comparison, “ring Off” is almost jarring in its more cooled down, island vibe.

He stepped to a corner of the room and by a ring he raised a trapdoor.

And he had actually given that ring into the keeping of this girl!

What was this human being fighting for everywhere but inside a ring?

Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new one.

The ring of anxiety in Grace's voice had not been lost upon her.