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What (who) is ring - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
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ring
I. TELEPHONING OR MAKING A SOUND
(rings, ringing, rang, rung)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Please look at category 11 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.
1.
When you ring someone, you telephone them. (mainly BRIT)
He rang me at my mother's...
I would ring when I got back to the hotel...
She has rung home just once...
Could someone ring for a taxi?
= phone
VERB: V n, V, V adv, V for n
•
You can ring us up anytime...
John rang up and invited himself over for dinner...
A few months ago I rang up about some housing problems...
Nobody rings up a doctor in the middle of the night for no reason.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P, V P about n, V P n (not pron)
2.
When a telephone rings, it makes a sound to let you know that someone is phoning you.
As soon as he got home, the phone rang...
VERB: V
•
Ring is also a noun.
After at least eight rings, an ancient-sounding maid answered the phone.
N-COUNT
• ringing
She was jolted out of her sleep by the ringing of the telephone.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
When you ring a bell or when a bell rings, it makes a sound.
He heard the school bell ring...
The door was opened before she could ring the bell.
VERB: V, V n
•
Ring is also a noun.
There was a ring at the bell.
N-COUNT
• ringing
...the ringing of church bells.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you ring for something, you ring a bell to call someone to bring it to you. If you ring for someone, you ring a bell so that they will come to you.
Shall I ring for a fresh pot of tea?...
VERB: V for n
5.
If you say that a place is ringing with sound, usually pleasant sound, you mean that the place is completely filled with that sound. (LITERARY)
The whole place was ringing with music.
VERB: V with n
6.
You can use ring to describe a quality that something such as a statement, discussion, or argument seems to have. For example, if an argument has a familiar ring, it seems familiar.
His proud boast of leading 'the party of low taxation' has a hollow ring.
= feel
N-SING: usu a adj N
7.
If you say that someone rings the changes, you mean that they make changes or improvements to the way something is organized or done.
Ring the changes by adding spices, dried fruit or olives.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
If you say that someone's words ring in your ears or ring in your head, you mean that you remember them very clearly, usually when you would prefer to forget them. (LITERARY)
She shivered as the sound of that man's abuse rang in her ears.
PHRASE: V and N inflect
9.
We'll give him a ring as soon as we get back.
PHRASE: V inflects
10.
If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
Joanna's denial rang true...
The rumpus has made all the optimistic statements about unity and harmony ring a little hollow.
PHRASE: V inflects
11.
see also ringing
II. SHAPES AND GROUPS
(rings, ringing, ringed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ring is a small circle of metal or other substance that you wear on your finger as jewellery.
...a gold wedding ring.
N-COUNT
2.
An object or substance that is in the shape of a circle can be described as a ring.
Frank took a large ring of keys from his pocket.
...a ring of blue smoke.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
3.
A group of people or things arranged in a circle can be described as a ring.
They then formed a ring around the square.
= circle
N-COUNT: usu with supp
4.
A gas or electric ring is one of the small flat areas on top of a stove which heat up and which you use for cooking. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use burner
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N-COUNT: usu supp N
5.
At a boxing or wrestling match or a circus, the ring is the place where the contest or performance takes place. It consists of an enclosed space with seats round it.
He will never again be allowed inside a British boxing ring.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
6.
You can refer to an organized group of people who are involved in an illegal activity as a ring.
Police are investigating the suspected drug ring at the school.
N-COUNT: usu n N
7.
If a building or place is ringed with or by something, it is surrounded by it.
The areas are sealed off and ringed by troops.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
8.
If you say that someone runs rings round you or runs rings around you, you mean that they are a lot better or a lot more successful than you at a particular activity. (INFORMAL)
Mentally, he can still run rings round men half his age!
PHRASE: V inflects
ring
I. n.
1.
Circle, hoop.
2.
Race-course, racing-ground, arena.
3.
Circular group of persons.
4.
(Colloq.) Resonance, reverberation.
5.
Clique, junto, cabal, coterie, set, combination, league, confederacy.
II. v. n.
1.
Sound, resound.
2.
Tingle, keep sounding.
ring
I
n.
circular band
1) a diamond; gold; sapphire ring
2) an earring; engagement; signet; wedding ring
3) a key; napkin; teething ring
4) a piston ring
5) smoke rings (to blow smoke rings)
6) (misc.) to wear a ring on one's finger
group
7) a smuggling; spy ring
enclosed square area
8) the prize ring
misc.
9) to run rings around smb. ('to far outperform smb.')
II
n.
sound
a false, hollow ring (there was a false ring to his words)
III
v.
1) (D; tr.) to ring for ('to call by ringing') (to ring for the maid)
2) (s) to ring false; hollow (her words ring false)
Wikipedia
Ring
Ring may refer to:
- Ring (jewellery), a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry
- To make a sound with a bell, and the sound made by a bell
- (hence) to initiate a telephone connection
Examples of use of ring
1. Ring, ring, ring – but Ya‘akov wasn‘t answering this week.
2. "It seems like if the phone were ringing, he would just let it ring and ring and ring," she said.
3. Unlike New York, which is built on a grid pattern, Moscow is encircled by four ring roads –– the Boulevard Ring, the Garden Ring, the Third Ring and the Moscow Ring Road –– and the super–charged center of commerce is entrenched within the innermost ring.
4. But despite its name, the Ring Road has never been a proper ring.
5. Hourly parking fees are 40 rubles within the Garden Ring, 30 rubles between the Garden Ring and the Third Ring Road and 25 rubles elsewhere.