Word Finder - rings

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(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.

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(physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.

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A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

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onion rings

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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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An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

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a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)

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A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

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a benzene ring

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A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

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A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

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An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

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A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

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Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

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The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

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To enclose or surround.

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The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

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To make an incision around; to girdle.

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

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To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

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We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

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

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to ring a pig’s snout

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To rise in the air spirally.

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

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

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

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A pleasant or correct sound.

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The name has a nice ring to it.

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A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

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Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.

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A telephone call.

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

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

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A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

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St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

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

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The bells were ringing in the town.

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

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The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

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To produce (a sound) by ringing.

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They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

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

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Whose mobile phone is ringing?

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

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That does not ring true.

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To telephone (someone).

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I will ring you when we arrive.

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To resound, reverberate, echo.

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To produce music with bells.

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To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

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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.

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The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, is the prototypical ring.

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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.

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The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2\mathbb{Z} of even integers to be a ring.

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A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar.

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A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.