rings

Meaning

1. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
2. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
3. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
4. 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.
5. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
6. A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
7. To enclose or surround.
8. To make an incision around; to girdle.
9. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
10. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
11. To rise in the air spirally.
12. To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
13. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
14. A pleasant or correct sound.
15. A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
16. A telephone call.
17. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
18. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
19. Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
20. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
21. To produce (a sound) by ringing.
22. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
23. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
24. To telephone (someone).
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar.
28. A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data