ring

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See also: Ring and riñg

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English ring, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with West Frisian ring, Low German Ring, Dutch ring, German Ring, Swedish ring, also Finnish rengas. Doublet of rink.

Noun

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.
      • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
        The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
    3. (British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
    4. (UK) 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 by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
        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. (British) 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.
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      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)
    • (Can we date this quote by Edward Augustus Freeman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the ruling ring at Constantinople
    • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston
      It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.
    • 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
  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
Terms derived from "ring" (etymology 1)
Translations
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
  • A boxing ring.
    A boxing ring.
  • A ring on a finger.
    A ring on a finger.
  • The rings of a tree.
    The rings of a tree.
  • The circus ring.
    The circus ring.
  • A ring on a bird's leg.
    A ring on a bird's leg.
  • The rings of Saturn.
    The rings of Saturn.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
    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
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Ring these fingers.
  5. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
  6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ringen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną. Cognate with Dutch ringen, Swedish ringa.

Noun

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
  3. (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
    They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
    Whose mobile phone is ringing?
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
    That does not ring true.
  6. (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
    I will ring you when we arrive.
  7. (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."
  8. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holder to this entry?)
  9. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
Derived terms
Terms derived from ring (verb, etymology 2)
Translations
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Etymology 3

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

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
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Derived terms
Translations

References

  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

Balinese

Preposition

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

Adjective

ring

  1. (of weight) light

References

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

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

ring m inan

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

Declension

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Further reading

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ring c (singular definite ringen, plural indefinite ringe)

  1. ring
  2. circle
  3. halo
  4. hoop
  5. coil
Inflection
Declension of ring
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ring ringen ringe ringene
genitive rings ringens ringes ringenes
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verbal noun to ringe (“to ring”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ring n (singular definite ringet, plural indefinite ring)

  1. (archaic) ring (the resonant sound of a bell, a telephone call)
Inflection
Declension of ring
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ring ringet ring ringene
genitive rings ringets rings ringenes

Etymology 3

See ringe.

Pronunciation

Verb

ring

  1. imperative of ringe

Dutch

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Wikipedia nl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ring m (plural ringen, diminutive ringetje n)

  1. ring, hollow circular object
  2. (gymnastics) ring
  3. beltway, ring road

Derived terms

See also

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

ring (genitive ringi, partitive ringi)

  1. circle

Declension

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See also

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

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

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Verb

ring

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Verb

ring

  1. (intransitive) to swing, to rock
    Synonyms: billeg, inog, ingadozik, himbálózik, himbálódzik
  2. (intransitive, of a ship) to sway, to roll
    Synonyms: ringatózik, ringatódzik, dülöng, dülöngél, himbálódzik, himbálózik
Conjugation
conjugation of ring
Click for archaic forms 1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal


Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringok ringasz ring ringunk ringotok or
ringtok 		ringanak
Def. intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indef. ringtam ringtál ringott ringtunk ringtatok ringtak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Future Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. ringani fog.
Archaic
Preterit 		Indef. ringék ringál ringa ringánk ringátok ringának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Archaic Past Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. ring vala, ringott vala/volt.
Archaic
Future 		Indef. ringandok ringandasz ringand ringandunk ringandotok ringandanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringanék ringanál ringana ringanánk ringanátok ringanának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. ringott volna
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringjak ringj or
ringjál 		ringjon ringjunk ringjatok ringjanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
(Archaic) Past Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. ringott légyen
Infinitive ringani ringanom ringanod ringania ringanunk ringanotok ringaniuk
Other
forms 		Verbal noun Present part. Past part. Future part. Adverbial participle Causative
ringás ringó ringott ― ringva (ringván)
potential conjugation of ring
Click for archaic forms 1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringhatok ringhatsz ringhat ringhatunk ringhattok ringhatnak
Def. intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indef. ringhattam ringhattál ringhatott ringhattunk ringhattatok ringhattak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Archaic
Preterit 		Indef. ringhaték ringhatál ringhata ringhatánk ringhatátok ringhatának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Archaic Past Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala, e.g. ringhat vala, ringhatott vala/volt.
Archaic
Future 		Indef. ringhatandok
or ringandhatok 		ringhatandasz
or ringandhatsz 		ringhatand
or ringandhat 		ringhatandunk
or ringandhatunk 		ringhatandotok
or ringandhattok 		ringhatandanak
or ringandhatnak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringhatnék ringhatnál ringhatna ringhatnánk ringhatnátok ringhatnának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. ringhatott volna
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. ringhassak ringhass or
ringhassál 		ringhasson ringhassunk ringhassatok ringhassanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
(Archaic) Past Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. ringhatott légyen
Inf. (ringhatni) (ringhatnom) (ringhatnod) (ringhatnia) (ringhatnunk) (ringhatnotok) (ringhatniuk)
Positive adjective ― Neg. adj. ― Adv. part. (ringhatva / ringhatván)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English ring.[2]

Noun

ring (plural ringek)

  1. (dated, boxing) ring, boxing ring (space in which a boxing match is contested)
    Synonym: szorító
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ring ringek
accusative ringet ringeket
dative ringnek ringeknek
instrumental ringgel ringekkel
causal-final ringért ringekért
translative ringgé ringekké
terminative ringig ringekig
essive-formal ringként ringekként
essive-modal — —
inessive ringben ringekben
superessive ringen ringeken
adessive ringnél ringeknél
illative ringbe ringekbe
sublative ringre ringekre
allative ringhez ringekhez
elative ringből ringekből
delative ringről ringekről
ablative ringtől ringektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		ringé ringeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		ringéi ringekéi
Possessive forms of ring
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ringem ringjeim
2nd person sing. ringed ringjeid
3rd person sing. ringje ringjei
1st person plural ringünk ringjeink
2nd person plural ringetek ringjeitek
3rd person plural ringjük ringjeik

References

  1. ^ ring in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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
Terms derived from ring

Etymology 2

Verb

ring

  1. imperative of ringe

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Terms derived from ring

Verb

Template:nn-verb-form

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of ringja and ringa

References

Old Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

ring m

  1. ring, circle

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: rinc
    • Dutch: ring(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in ring#Dutch)
    • Limburgish: rink

Further reading

  • “rink”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ring m

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

Descendants

Portuguese

Noun

ring m (plural s)

  1. Alternative form of ringue

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English ring.

Noun

rȉng m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏нг)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From English ring

Noun

ring m (plural rings)

  1. (boxing) ring

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Declension of ring 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ring ringen ringar ringarna
Genitive rings ringens ringars ringarnas

Derived terms

Verb

ring

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of ringa.

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ring c (plural ringen, diminutive rinkje)

  1. ring, circle
  2. ring (jewelry)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ring”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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