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.

Every time the phone rings, we jump.

Sarah had pouted for a bit about not being able to wear her rings, but recovered quickly.

After several rings, it went to the message.

Forget your rope rings and rubber quoits; these are the genuine article.

Don't answer the phone when it rings.

Hamburgers, hot dogs, onion rings, French fries - you know, the usual fast food stuff.

While it was huge and red from the outside, the inside resembled a boxing gym with several rings, training equipment and a wall of mirrors.

There is a Neolithic walled citadel with three rings of walls.

You take time to think about a date, but I want to take you out tomorrow to look at engagement rings.

I asked his permission, and he helped me pick out the rings.

I still hate it when the telephone rings.

It looked like a ring box, but they had already purchased the rings.

They were pale green with silver rings that seemed to liquefy and swirl as Xander watched.

In Rhabdopleura each zooid forms its own delicate tube composed of a characteristic series of distinct rings.

The parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position.

In 1826 he described the prismatically-coloured films of metal, known as Nobili's' rings, deposited electrolytically from solutions of lead and other salts when the anode is a polished iron plate and the cathode is a fine wire placed vertically above it.

The latter names a disengaged junction circuit, then " tests " the line of the wanted subscriber, and if she finds it free, finally completes the connexion and rings the subscriber.

One, the " upper " or ex-umbral nervering, is derived from the ectoderm on the ex-umbral side of the velum; it is the larger of the two rings, containing more numerous but smaller ganglioncells, and innervates the tentacles.

External tympaniform membranes exist, with great variations, between the specialized one or two last tracheal and some of the first bronchial rings.

The essential feature is that the proximal end of the inner membranes is attached to the last pair of tracheal rings; outer tympaniform membranes exist generally between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bronchial semi-rings.

The lower portion of the trachea consists of thin membranes, about half a dozen of the rings being very thin or deficient.

Omitting the paired tracheo-clavicular muscles, we restrict ourselves to the syringeal proper, those which extend between tracheal and bronchial rings.

We have thus grounds for believing that the original nebula will separate into a series of rings all revolving in the same direction with a central nebulous mass in the interior.

The frame is crossed by four metal horizontal rods passing through holes large enough to allow them to rattle when the sistrum is shaken, the rods being prevented from slipping out altogether by little metal stops in the shape of a leaf; sometimes metal rings are threaded over the rods to increase the jingling.

The peristomium has no setae, and the setae generally are hair-like or uncinate, often forming almost complete rings.

When several rings or circles were combined representing the great circles of the heavens, the instrument became an armillary sphere.

Eratosthenes (276-196 B.C.) used most probably a solstitial armilla for measuring the obliquity of the ecliptic. Hipparchus (160-125 B.C.) probably used an armillary sphere of four rings.

The park system consists of two concentric rings, the inner being the city system proper, the outer the metropolitan system undertaken by the commonwealth in co-operation with the city.

The concentric castle, with its rings of walls, began to displace the old keep and bailey with.

Let -I- B, - B, be two smaller trunnions which project out from the sides of the two strips connecting together a pair of rings CC. The rings and the connecting strips constitute the circuit which is to be rendered movable.

Carbocyclic rings will next be treated, benzene and its allies in some detail; and finally the heterocyclic nuclei.

Perkin, junr., in 1883, that ethylene and trimethylene bromides are capable of acting in such a way on sodium acetoacetic ester as to form triand tetramethylene rings.

Baeyer supposes that in the formation of carbon, rings " the valencies become deflected from their positions, and that the tension thus introduced may be deduced from a comparison of this angle with the angles at which the strained valencies would meet.

Similar considerations will apply to rings containing other elements besides carbon.

Other hydrocarbon nuclei generally classed as aromatic in character result from the union of two or more benzene nuclei joined by one or two valencies with polymethylene or oxidized polymethylene rings; instances of such nuclei are indene, hydrindene, fluorene, and fluoranthene.

Hitherto we have generally restricted ourselves to syntheses which result in the production of a true benzene ring; but there are many reactions by which reduced benzene rings are synthesized, and from the compounds so obtained true benzenoid compounds may be prepared.

Restricting ourselves to compounds resulting from the fusion of benzene rings, we have first to consider naphthalene, C10H8, which consists of two benzene rings having a pair of carbon atoms in common.

This symbol harmonizes with the fact that the two rings are in complete sympathy, the one responding to every change made in the other.

Then, on account of the relatively slight - because divided - influence which would be exercised upon the two rings by the two affinities common to both, the remaining four centric affinities of each ring would presumably be less attracted into the ring than in the case of benzene; consequently they would be more active outwards, and combination would set in more readily.

The centric formula proposed by Bamberger represents naphthalene as formed by the fusion of two benzene rings, this indicates that it is a monocyclic composed of ten atoms of carbon.

For general purposes, however, the symbol (2), in which the lateral rings are benzenoid and the medial ring fatty, represents quite adequately the syntheses, decompositions, and behaviour of anthracene.

Fiveand six-membered rings are the most stable and important, the last-named group resulting from the polymerization of many substances; threeand four-membered rings are formed with difficulty, and are easily ruptured; rings containing seven or more members are generally unstable, and are relatively little known.

The elements which go to form heterocyclic rings, in addition to carbon, are oxygen, sulphur, selenium and nitrogen.

Similarly, two or more methine groups may be replaced by the same number of nitrogen atoms with the formation of rings of considerable stability.

The second method possesses greater advantages, for rings of approximate stability come in one group, and, consequently, their derivatives may be expected to exhibit considerable analogies.

True ring systems, which possess the characters of organic nuclei, do not come into existence in threeand four-membered rings, their first appearance being in penta-atomic rings.

Obviously, isomeric ring-systems are possible, since the carbon atoms in the original rings are not all of equal value.

One or two benzene nuclei may suffer condensation with the furfurane, thiophene and pyrrol rings, the common carbon atoms being vicinal to the hetero-atom.

Proceeding to the six-membered hetero-atomic rings, the benzo-, dibenzoand naphtho-derivatives are frequently of great commercial and scientific importance.

The proboscis bears rings of recurved hooks arranged in horizontal rows, and it is by means of these hooks that the animal attaches itself to the tissues of its host.