RINGS
/ɹɪŋz/
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Definition
/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”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
Source: Wiktionary
