ALL meanings of ring
ring
R r - verb ring When you ring someone, you telephone them. 0
- verb ring Ring up means the same as ring1. 0
- verb ring When a telephone rings, it makes a sound to let you know that someone is phoning you. 0
- verb ring Ring is also a noun. 0
- verb ring When you ring a bell or when a bell rings, it makes a sound. 0
- verb ring If you ring for something, you ring a bell to call someone to bring it to you. If you ring for someone, you ring a bell so that they will come to you. 0
- verb ring If you say that a place is ringing with sound, usually pleasant sound, you mean that the place is completely filled with that sound. 0
- singular noun ring You can use ring to describe a quality that something such as a statement, discussion, or argument seems to have. For example, if an argument has a familiar ring, it seems familiar. 0
- countable noun ring A ring is a small circle of metal or other substance that you wear on your finger as jewellery. 0
- countable noun ring An object or substance that is in the shape of a circle can be described as a ring. 0
- countable noun ring A group of people or things arranged in a circle can be described as a ring. 0
- countable noun ring A gas or electric ring is one of the small flat areas on top of a stove which heat up and which you use for cooking. 0
- countable noun ring At a boxing or wrestling match or a circus, the ring is the place where the contest or performance takes place. It consists of an enclosed space with seats round it. 0
- countable noun ring You can refer to an organized group of people who are involved in an illegal activity as a ring. 0
- verb ring If a building or place is ringed with or by something, it is surrounded by it. 0
- verb ring If you ring a bird, you put a small metal ring around its leg so that you can identify it and study its movements and habits. 0
- noun ring a circular band usually of a precious metal, esp gold, often set with gems and worn upon the finger as an adornment or as a token of engagement or marriage 0
- noun ring any object or mark that is circular in shape 0
- noun ring a circular path or course 0
- noun ring a group of people or things standing or arranged so as to form a circle 0
- noun ring an enclosed space, usually circular in shape, where circus acts are performed 0
- noun ring a square apron or raised platform, marked off by ropes, in which contestants box or wrestle 0
- noun ring the field of competition or rivalry 0
- noun ring a group of people usually operating illegally and covertly 0
- noun ring (esp at country fairs) an enclosure, often circular, where horses, cattle, and other livestock are paraded and auctioned 0
- noun ring an area reserved for betting at a racecourse 0
- noun ring a circular strip of bark cut from a tree or branch, esp in order to kill it 0
- noun ring a single turn in a spiral 0
- noun ring the area of space lying between two concentric circles 0
- noun ring a set that is subject to two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is an Abelian group under addition and is closed under multiplication, this latter operation being associative 0
- noun ring a closed loop of atoms in a molecule 0
- noun ring any of the thin circular bands of small bodies orbiting a giant planet, esp Saturn 0
- verb ring to surround with, or as if with, or form a ring; encircle 0
- verb ring to mark (a bird) with a ring or clip for subsequent identification 0
- verb ring to fit a ring in the nose of (a bull, pig, etc) so that it can be led easily 0
- verb ring to cut away a circular strip of bark from (a tree or branch) in order to kill it 0
- verb ring to cut a narrow or partial ring from (the trunk of a tree) in order to check or prevent vigorous growth 0
- verb ring to be the fastest shearer in (a shearing shed), esp in the phrase ring the shed) 0
- verb ring to emit or cause to emit a sonorous or resonant sound, characteristic of certain metals when struck 0
- verb ring to cause (a bell) to emit a ringing sound by striking it once or repeatedly or (of a bell) to emit such a sound 0
- verb ring to cause (a large bell, esp a church bell) to emit a ringing sound by pulling on a rope that is attached to a wheel on which the bell swings back and forth, being sounded by a clapper inside it 0
- verb ring (of a bell) to sound by being swung in this way 0
- verb ring (of a building, place, etc) to be filled with sound; echo 0
- verb ring to call by means of a bell, buzzer, etc 0
- verb ring to call (a person) by telephone 0
- verb ring to strike or tap (a coin) in order to assess its genuineness by the sound produced 0
- verb ring (of the ears) to have or give the sensation of humming or ringing 0
- verb ring (of an electric circuit) to produce a damped oscillatory wave after the application of a sharp input transition 0
- verb ring to change the identity of (a stolen vehicle) by using the licence plate, serial number, etc, of another, usually disused, vehicle 0
- noun ring the act of or a sound made by ringing 0