Definitions for rung

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rung rung

Spelling: [ruhng]

IPA: /rʌŋ/

Rung is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in rung (gnru).

Definitions for rung

noun

1. one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
2. a rounded or shaped piece fixed horizontally, for strengthening purposes, as between the legs of a chair.
3. a spoke of a wheel.
4. a stout stick, rod, or bar, especially one of rounded section, forming a piece in something framed or constructed.
5. a stage in a scale, level in a hierarchy, etc.; degree:
6. 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.
7. anything having the form of such a band:
8. a circular or surrounding line or mark:
9. a circular course:
10. a number of persons or things situated in a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement:
11. the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim.
12. an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition:
13. a bullring.
14. 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.
15. the sport of boxing; prizefighting:
16. (formerly in the U.S., now only in Brit.) an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets.
17. a group of persons cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law:
18. a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course.
19. Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles.
20. annual ring.
21. a circle of bark cut from around a tree.
22. Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form. Compare chain (def 7).
23. Architecture. rowlock (def 1).
24. a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured.
25. 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.
26. a unit of measurement of the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch. Also called ring gauge.
27. Automotive, Machinery. piston ring.
28. 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.
29. a ringing sound, as of a bell or bells:
30. a sound or tone likened to the ringing of a bell:
31. any loud sound; sound continued, repeated, or reverberated:
32. a set or peal of bells.
33. a telephone call:
34. an act or instance of ringing a bell:
35. a characteristic sound, as of a coin.
36. the aspect or impression presented by a statement, an action, etc., taken as revealing a specified inherent quality:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ring2 .

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 rung

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hrung; cognate with Gothic hrunga rod, German Runge

Examples for rung

The whole country would have rung with it, had we not been in the midst of war.

The first bell has not rung yet, and there comes Tip up the hill.

How many 911-like alarms have been rung since Obama was elected?

Arthur, who was preparing to attend the cathedral, for the bell had rung out, hastened in.

The bell had rung—the curtain was up and the performances were about to begin.

This boosts the average SAT scores at the college, and the school moves up a rung on the rankings ladder.

A graduate of Smith College and Georgetown Law School, Cutter, 43, has climbed the political ladder one rung at a time.

I was of extremely low rank, a Senior Aircraftman – only one rung above the bottom.

She said that at one point someone had rung her mother and said "eye for an eye, you deserve to die".

Any words of his, would they not have rung in her ears unceasingly?