ring

noun

(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.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
a benzene ring
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

verb

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

noun

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.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

verb

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?
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
That does not ring true.
To telephone (someone).
I will ring you when we arrive.
To resound, reverberate, echo.
To produce music with bells.
To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

noun

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.

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