<noun.shape> a ring of ships in the harbor a halo of smoke
a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
<noun.artifact> there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse
(chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
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an association of criminals
<noun.group> police tried to break up the gang a pack of thieves
the sound of a bell ringing
<noun.event> the distinctive ring of the church bell the ringing of the telephone the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells
a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
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jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
<noun.artifact> she had rings on every finger he noted that she wore a wedding band
a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
Ring \Ring\, v. i. 1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. --Chaucer.
Why ring not out the bells? --Shak.
2. To practice making music with bells. --Holder.
3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. --Pope.
The hall with harp and carol rang. --Tennyson.
My ears still ring with noise. --Dryden.
4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
The assertion is still ringing in our ears. --Burke.
5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Rang} (r[a^]ng) or {Rung} (r[u^]ng); p. p. {Rung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ringing}.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.] 1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. --Shak.
3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
{To ring a peal}, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
{To ring the changes upon}. See under {Change}.
{To ring in} or {To ring out}, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. --Tennyson.
{To ring the bells backward}, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. --Sir W. Scott.
Ring \Ring\, n. 1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. --Bacon
3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world. --Fuller.
Ring \Ring\, n. [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G. ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf. Russ. krug'. Cf. {Harangue}, {Rank} a row,{Rink}.] A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. --Shak.
3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. --E. Smith.
4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. ``The road was an institution, the ring was an institution.'' --Thackeray.
5. A circular group of persons.
And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's alter sing. --Milton.
6. (Geom.) (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
7. (Astron. & Navigation) 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.
8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of {Sporangium}.
9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
The ruling ring at Constantinople. --E. A. Freeman.
{Ring armor}, armor composed of rings of metal. See {Ring mail}, below, and {Chain mail}, under {Chain}.
{Ring blackbird} (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel.
{Ring canal} (Zo["o]l.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.
{Ring dotterel}, or {Ringed dotterel}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Dotterel}, and Illust. of {Pressiroster}.
{Ring dropper}, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless.
{Ring fence}. See under {Fence}.
{Ring finger}, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage.
{Ring formula} (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under {Benzene}.
{Ring mail}, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth.
{Ring micrometer}. (Astron.) See {Circular micrometer}, under {Micrometer}.
{Saturn's rings}. See {Saturn}.
{Ring ousel}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Ousel}.
{Ring parrot} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially {Pal[ae]ornis torquatus}, common in India, and {Pal[ae]ornis Alexandri} of {Java}.
{Ring plover}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover ({[AE]gialitis semipalmata}).
{Ring snake} (Zo["o]l.), a small harmless American snake ({Diadophis punctatus}) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red.
{Ring stopper}. (Naut.) See under {Stopper}.
{Ring thrush} (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel.
{The prize ring}, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively.
{The ring}. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.
Ring \Ring\, v. i. (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
Ring \Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ringing}.] 1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. ``Ring these fingers.'' --Shak.
2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
Police said they stopped the car because Papa and Rampersant matched the description of a holdup team that had stolen $10 and a ring from a woman on a Coney Island street six days earlier.
A Tampa Tribune sportswriter was arrested March 30 in what police said was a five-month investigation into a crack cocaine ring.
"A policeman found a diamond ring out in the parking lot," she said.
Investigators believe the ring made millions by purchasing handguns, assault rifles and grenade launchers from Lebananese militiamen.
Besides heading the drug ring, the case involved more than one kilogram of crack, a firearm was found, and Staley tried to bribe a witness not to testify by offering $10,000 or a Mercedes Benz.
At every race, dozens of security men ring the track, binoculars at their eyes.
Each evening, the six bulls that run the city streets will be killed during bullfights at the city bull ring.
Mr. Downie argues that the Post wrote about the prostitution ring in May and that a story, in answer to the Times' disclosures starting June 29, appeared in the Post's metro section July 1.
NASA spokesman Ed Medal said it had not yet been determined if the outdated ring was used in the two boosters attached to the space shuttle Discovery, scheduled for launch Sept. 29, but preliminary investigation showed it had not.
Kellner's office indicted leaders of the Colombia-based Medellin Cartel, responsible for up to 80 percent of U.S. cocaine imports. And he successfully prosecuted scores of Miami police who ran a drug-ripoff ring.
Technical innovations plus growing international economic integration may not have the same ring to them as visions of a New Jerusalem or classless society but these old idealisms were hopeless and naive.
The Colombian ring reportedly accounts for up to 80 percent of the cocaine entering the United States.
A helicopter pilot accused of trying to fly a convicted drug trafficker out of a federal prison once worked with a man accused of being a member of the smuggler's marijuana ring, authorities said.
The Russians will have enough temptation to ring down the Iron Curtain and launch a new reign of terror, even if it costs them the good will Mr. Gorbachev has so carefully cultivated.
CBS reported on a smuggling ring broken up recently in Panama. The network, quoting unidentified military sources, reported that at least nine people, including two Americans, were arrested.
During the second full-scale firing on Dec. 23, the rocket's NASA-designed nozzle boot ring broke apart.
He said he fired Gobie in August 1987 after learning that Gobie was running a prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment.
He is far more interested in Moscow's black market: the illicit trade in Marlboros, porn videos, spare parts, you name it, that is conducted nightly at various unspecified locations along the city's ring road.
U.S. Customs officials said the indictments stem from a two-year undercover investigation into a money-launderingring that routed drug profits through the banks to Colombian cocaine cartels.
The U.S. and Sweden are studying the possibility that a ring of Polish-born businessmen smuggled sensitive electronic parts to their homeland through Sweden.
The two had been accused by convicted drug smuggler Alion Andersson of participating in a cocaine smuggling ring.
At times, all 12 horses gallop at full speed in the ring.
The collider will be a 53-mile-circumference, underground ring of magnets capable of whipping proton beams into each other with 20 times the force of the world's most powerful existing accelerator.
In a January indictment against several members of the ring, the government alleged, among other things, that the two attorneys accompanied the undocumented aliens to immigration offices and assisted them in filing the documents.
The bugged phone does not ring.
Foreman, winning for the 22nd straight time since returning to the ring three years ago, wasted little time in earning his $1 million payday.
The items stolen included the former St. Louis catcher's Series ring from 1946, the year the Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox, Warner said.
Less public money may also be available to the candidates that do throw their hats in the ring.
The state agriculture commissioner had an accident with a lawn mower Saturday and cut off the tip of the ring finger on his left hand.
The watch, designed by Steven Monti, absorbs energy through a solar cell, which generates a circle for minutes surrounded by a thicker ring for hours on the face of a liquid-crystal display.