Ring

noun

  1. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

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  2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.

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  3. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.

    migration

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  4. A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ring.

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  5. 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.

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  6. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring, prostitution ring, etc.

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  7. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

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  8. Burner.

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  9. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.

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  10. A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

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  11. An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

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  12. A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.

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  13. A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

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  14. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.

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  15. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

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  16. A pleasant or correct sound.

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  17. A telephone call.

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  18. 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.

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  19. 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.

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verb

  1. To surround or enclose.

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  2. To make an incision around; to girdle.

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  3. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

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  4. To rise in the air spirally.

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  5. Of a bell, to produce sound; to make a bell produce sound.

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  6. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

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  7. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

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  8. To telephone someone.

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  9. To resound, reverberate, echo.

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