ring

A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.

UKA bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

UKA burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

onion rings

In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

vulgarThe rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.

Lick my ring!

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.

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.

A pleasant or correct sound.

The name has a nice ring to it.

A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.

colloquialA telephone call.

I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

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, #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;, is the prototypical ring.

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 2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; of even integers to be a ring.

A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.

A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.

To enclose or surround.

The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.

They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

to ring a pig’s snout

To rise in the air spirally.

To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into

AustraliaTo ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.

Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

The bells were ringing in the town.

To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

To produce (a sound) by ringing.

They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

Whose mobile phone is ringing?

Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

That does not ring true.

AustraliaUKcolloquialTo telephone (someone).

I will ring you when we arrive.

to resound, reverberate, echo.

To produce music with bells.