Rings
/ɹɪŋz/
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)"
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.
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.
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."
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."
noun
- A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar.
- A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.
SYNONYMS
Total: 6 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Rings"
Rings is a 5-letter word that scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "rings" can be rearranged to form 2 other valid words.
Using "Rings" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "rings" is a low-scoring word.