rings

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/ɹɪŋz/ English

Definitions

(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.“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.

To enclose or surround.“The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.”
To make an incision around; to girdle.“They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.”
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.“We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.”
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.“to ring a pig’s snout”

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.“The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.”
A pleasant or correct sound.“The name has a nice ring to it.”
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.“Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.”
A telephone call.“I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.”

Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.“The bells were ringing in the town.”
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.“The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.”
To produce (a sound) by ringing.“They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.”
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.“Whose mobile phone is ringing?”

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

A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar.
A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.