ring

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English ring, ryng, also rink, rynk, from Old English hring, hrincg (“ring, link of chain, fetter, festoon, anything circular, circle, circular group, border, horizon, corselet, circuit (of a year), cycle, course, orb, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“circle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Scots ring (“ring”), West Frisian ring (“ring”), Saterland Frisian Ring (“ring, circle”), Dutch ring (“ring, hoop”), Low German Ring (“ring”), German Ring (“ring, circle”), Swedish ring (“ring, circle”), Icelandic hringur (“ring”), Umbrian krenkatrum, cringatro (“belt”), Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (“circle”) (Russian круг (krug)), Old English hrung (“cross-bar, spoke”), Albanian vrangull (“a wheel-shaped tool, circle motion”), rreng (“to do a prank, cheat, deceive”). More at rung.

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
    1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
      Synonyms: annulus, hoop, torus
    2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
    3. (Britain) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
    4. (Britain) A burner on a kitchen stove.
    5. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
    6. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
    7. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
  2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
    1. A circular group of people or objects.
      a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
      • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
        And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.
      • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
        The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
    2. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
    3. (Britain) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
  3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
    onion rings
  4. 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.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Smith
      Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
  5. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
    a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
  6. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
    a benzene ring
  7. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
  8. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
  9. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 168.
      The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —
  10. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
    • 2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
      Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.
  11. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
  12. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from "ring" (etymology 1)
Translations[edit]
burner (e.g. of a stove) — see burner
typography: diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle — see kroužek
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Gallery[edit]

  • A boxing ring.

  • A ring on a finger.

  • The rings of a tree.

  • The circus ring.

  • A ring on a bird's leg.

  • The rings of Saturn.

Verb[edit]

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

  1. (transitive) To surround or enclose.
    The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
    They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
  3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
    We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
    • 1919, Popular Science (volume 95, number 4, page 31)
      Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
  4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
    to ring a pig's snout
    • Shakespeare
      Ring these fingers.
  5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hringan (“to ring, sound, clash; announce by bells”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną (“to resound, ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreg- (“to crow, caw, croak, shout”). Cognate with Dutch ringen (“to ring”), Danish ringe (“to ring, call”), Swedish ringa (“to ring, call”), Icelandic hringja (“to ring, call”), Lithuanian krañkti (“to caw, croak, cough”), Albanian vring (“a high-pitched sound made by waving violently a solid object”).

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
    The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
    The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
  2. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
    The name has a nice ring to it.
  3. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
    Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
  4. (colloquial) A telephone call.
    I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
  5. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
    • Francis Bacon
      the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
  6. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
    St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
    • Fuller
      as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past rang or (nonstandard) rung, past participle rung)

  1. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
    The bells were ringing in the town.
  2. (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
    The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
    • Shakespeare
      The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
    Whose mobile phone is ringing?
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
    That does not ring true.
  5. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
    I will ring you when we arrive.
  6. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
    • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
      It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
  7. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holder to this entry?)
  8. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived form ring (verb, etymology 2)
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Etymology 3[edit]

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring”) (coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892).[1] Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

The symbol ℤ represents the ring of integers.

Noun[edit]

ring (plural rings)

  1. (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.
    The set of integers, , is the prototypical ring.
  2. (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.
    The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set of even integers to be a ring.
Hypernyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1962, Harvey Cohn, A Second Course in Number Theory, Wiley, 1980, Advanced Number Theory, Dover, Unabridged republication, page 49.
  2. ^ Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (R)

Anagrams[edit]

Balinese[edit]

Preposition[edit]

ring

  1. in, at (basa alus)
    Ring Bali wénten danu patpat: Batur, Beratan, Tambilingan miwah Buyan. ― There are four lakes in Bali: Batur, Beratan, Tambilingan and Buyan.
    lianan ring ― besides
    ring ajeng ― in front of
    ring arep ― in front of
    ring dija? ― (at) where?
    Ring dija ragané magenah? ― Where do you live?
    Ring dija ragané mekarya? ― Where do you work?
    ring jero ― inside
    ring pidan? ― when? (past time reference)
    Ring pidan ipun rauh? ― When did he come?
    ring sapunapi ― sometime(s), from time to time
    Synonym: di (basa biasa)

Cimbrian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ring

  1. (of weight) light

References[edit]

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m inan

  1. ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Declension[edit]

Declension
singularplural
nominativeringringy
genitiveringuringů
dativeringuringům
accusativeringringy
vocativeringuringy
locativeringurinzích
instrumentalringemringy

Further reading[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

  1. ring
  2. circle
  3. halo
  4. hoop
  5. coil
Inflection[edit]
Declension of ring
common
gender		SingularPlural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativeringringenringeringene
genitiveringsringensringesringenes
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

  1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of ring
neuter
gender		SingularPlural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativeringringetringringene
genitiveringsringetsringsringenes

Etymology 3[edit]

See ringe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringe

Dutch[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch rinc, from Old Dutch ring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

  1. ring, hollow circular object
  2. beltway

Derived terms[edit]

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Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German rink. Compare German Ring. See also rõngas.

Noun[edit]

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

  1. circle

Declension[edit]

Declension of ring (type riik)
singularplural
nominativeringringid
genitiveringiringide
partitiveringiringe / ringisid
illativeringi / ringisseringidesse
inessiveringisringides
elativeringistringidest
allativeringileringidele
adessiveringilringidel
ablativeringiltringidelt
translativeringiksringideks
terminativeringiniringideni
essiveringinaringidena
abessiveringitaringideta
comitativeringigaringidega

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ring (sense 1) and Dutch ring (sense 2).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural rings)

  1. (sports, chiefly combat sports) ring
  2. (Belgium) ring road, beltway

Further reading[edit]

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. Imperative singular of ringen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of ringen.

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈriŋɡ]
  • Hyphenation: ring

Etymology 1[edit]

From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -g (frequentative suffix).[1]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. (intransitive) to sway
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of ring
Infinitiveringani
Past participleringott
Present participleringó
Future participle-
Adverbial participleringva
Potentialringhat
1st person sg2nd person sg informal3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal		1st person pl2nd person pl informal3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative moodPresentIndefiniteringokringaszringringunkringotok
or
ringtok		ringanak
Definiteintransitive verb, definite forms are not used
PastIndefiniteringtamringtálringottringtunkringtatokringtak
Definite-
Conditional moodPresentIndefiniteringanékringanálringanaringanánkringanátokringanának
Definite-
Subjunctive moodPresentIndefiniteringjakringj
or
ringjál		ringjonringjunkringjatokringjanak
Definite-
Conjugated infinitiveringanomringanodringaniaringanunkringanotokringaniuk
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From English ring.[2]

Noun[edit]

ring (plural ringek)

  1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)
    Synonym: szorító
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singularplural
nominativeringringek
accusativeringetringeket
dativeringnekringeknek
instrumentalringgelringekkel
causal-finalringértringekért
translativeringgéringekké
terminativeringigringekig
essive-formalringkéntringekként
essive-modal——
inessiveringbenringekben
superessiveringenringeken
adessiveringnélringeknél
illativeringberingekbe
sublativeringreringekre
allativeringhezringekhez
elativeringbőlringekből
delativeringrőlringekről
ablativeringtőlringektől
Possessive forms of ring
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.ringemringjeim
2nd person sing.ringedringjeid
3rd person sing.ringjeringjei
1st person pluralringünkringjeink
2nd person pluralringetekringjeitek
3rd person pluralringjükringjeik

References[edit]

  1. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
  2. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringer, definite plural ringene)

  1. ring; a circular piece of material
  2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringe

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m (definite singular ringen, indefinite plural ringar, definite plural ringane)

  1. ring; a circular piece of material
  2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringja, ringje, ringa and ringe

References[edit]

Old Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m

  1. ring, circle

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • “rink”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun[edit]

ring m

  1. ring (object in the shape of a circle)

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle High German: [Term?]

Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural rings)

  1. Alternative form of ringue

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ring.

Noun[edit]

rȉng m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏нг)

  1. the ring (place where some sports take place; boxing ring and similar)

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ring

Noun[edit]

ring m (plural rings)

  1. (boxing) ring

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish ringer, from Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ring c

  1. ring; a circular piece of material
  2. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place
  3. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure
  4. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure
  5. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets
  6. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool)
    Ann började nyss andra ring.
    Ann recently began her second year at the gymnasium.

Declension[edit]

Declension of ring 
SingularPlural
IndefiniteDefiniteIndefiniteDefinite
Nominativeringringenringarringarna
Genitiveringsringensringarsringarnas

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

ring

  1. imperative of ringa.
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