rings
/ɹɪŋz/noun
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(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
(physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
Example: onion rings
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.
verb
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To enclose or surround.
Example: The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
To make an incision around; to girdle.
Example: They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
Example: We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
Example: to ring a pig’s snout
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The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
Example: The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
A pleasant or correct sound.
Example: The name has a nice ring to it.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
Example: Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
A telephone call.
Example: I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
verb
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Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
Example: The bells were ringing in the town.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
Example: The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
To produce (a sound) by ringing.
Example: They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Example: Whose mobile phone is ringing?
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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.
Example: The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, 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.
Example: 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.
A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.