Rings
/ɹɪŋz/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Definition of Rings
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.
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