Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Ring   /rɪŋ/   Listen
Ring

noun
1.
A characteristic sound.
2.
A toroidal shape.  Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, halo.  "A halo of smoke"
3.
A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling.  Synonym: hoop.
4.
(chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop.  Synonym: closed chain.
5.
An association of criminals.  Synonyms: gang, mob, pack.  "A pack of thieves"
6.
The sound of a bell ringing.  Synonyms: ringing, tintinnabulation.  "The ringing of the telephone" , "The tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"
7.
A platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle.
8.
Jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger.  Synonym: band.  "He noted that she wore a wedding band"
9.
A strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration).  Synonym: band.
verb
(when related to sound: past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing)  (when related to circles: past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)
1.
Sound loudly and sonorously.  Synonym: peal.
2.
Ring or echo with sound.  Synonyms: echo, resound, reverberate.
3.
Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification.  Synonym: knell.  "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
4.
Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone.  Synonyms: call, call up, phone, telephone.  "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"
5.
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.  Synonyms: border, environ, skirt, surround.
6.
Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify.  Synonym: band.  "Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"



Related searches:
ring armor
ring armour
ring blackbird
ring containment
ring dance
ring disease
ring finger
ring girl
Ring Lardner
ring mail
ring of color
ring out
ring ouzel
ring road
ring rot
ring rot bacteria
ring rot fungus
ring snake
ring thrush
ring up
ring vaccination
ring-a-rosy
ring-around-a-rosy
ring-around-the-rosy
ring-binder
ring-necked parakeet
ring-necked pheasant
ring-necked snake
ring-shaped
ring-stalked fungus
ring-tailed cat
ring-tailed lemur
anchor ring
annual ring
bell ringing
benzene ring
boxing ring
brass ring
closed-ring
coffee ring
curtain ring
engagement ring
fairy ring
fairy-ring mushroom
fringe
gas ring
growth ring
heterocyclic ring
Kayser-Fleischer ring
key ring


1  2     Next

Words per page:
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Ring" Quotes from Famous Books



... he throws the handbills into the room.] Billy Miller's big show and monster circus is in town this afternoon. Only one ring. No confusion. [Seeing WILLIAM.] Circus day comes but once a year, little sir. Come early and see the wild animals and hear the lions roar-r-r! Mind! [Holding up his finger to WILLIAM.] I shall expect ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm • David Belasco
... (called a saree) round their bodies, and fold it over their heads like a veil, and then they are full dressed, except their ornaments, and with these they load themselves; glass rings of different colors on their arms, silver rings on their fingers and toes, and gold rings in their ears, and a gold ring in ...
— Far Off • Favell Lee Mortimer
... the end of the keg to turn it out of my hands and on the other side of it was Jim Gano, the marshal, who I think hauled all the divekeepers' goods to them. He was a Republican and in with the whiskey ring and a "rummy" himself. I then placed a foot on each side of the keg and held it firm with both feet and hands. Jim Gano sprang in front of me and with his chest against my head, I thought certainly he would break my neck. I called to the women to ...
— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation
... a few weeks the engagement was concealed even from Mrs. Hayden, and Graham, who had received some stock from his father on his twenty-first birthday, secretly sold a few shares and bought the engagement ring. With that Marion breather easier. ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... not know what the note-case carried off by the assassin contained. But," he added, "the hypothesis of robbery seems to me to be utterly routed by the fact that, while Rochdale stripped the dead man of his watch, he left a ring, which was much more valuable, on his finger. From this I conclude that he took the watch merely as a precaution to throw the police off the scent. My supposition is that the man killed ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com