Meaning of ring | Babel Free

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1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
2. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.
3. A solid object in the shape of a circle.
   physical
4. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
   physical
5. A solid object in the shape of a circle. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc
6. 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.
7. A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
8. A pleasant or correct sound.
   figuratively
9. A parish of County Waterford, Ireland.
10. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc
11. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
    physical
12. 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.
13. A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
14. A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
    figuratively
15. An unincorporated community in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.
16. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc
17. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
    UK, physical
18. A telephone call.
    colloquial
19. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration
20. A burner on a kitchen stove.
    UK, physical
21. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
22. A burner on a kitchen stove
23. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
    physical
24. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
25. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
    physical
26. The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
    physical, vulgar
27. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
    historical, physical
28. A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
    physical
29. A group of objects arranged in a circle.
    physical
30. A circular group of people or objects.
    physical
31. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
    physical
32. A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
    British, physical
33. A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
34. Ellipsis of webring.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
35. 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.
36. The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
37. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
38. A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
39. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
40. A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
41. An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
    historical
42. A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
43. Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
44. The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
45. A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.

Equivalents

Examples

“His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.”

“The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.”

“onion rings; calamari rings”

“Lick my ring”

“a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood”

“And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing.”

“The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.”

“a ring of grime around the bathtub”

“Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.”

“Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.”

““If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!” Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.”

“a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)”

“the ruling ring at Constantinople”

“It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot.”

“In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.”

“a benzene ring”

“The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties”

“Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3.”

“The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.”

“The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.”

“The name has a nice ring to it.”

“Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.”

“I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.”

“the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears”

“St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.”

“as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world”

“The set of integers, #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;, is the prototypical ring.”

“The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; of even integers to be a ring.”

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