Word: ring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range. Cognates * West Frisian ring * Low German Ring * Dutch ring * German Ring * Swedish ring * Finnish rengas More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (whence Bulgarian кръг (krǎg), Polish krąg, Russian круг (krug)). Pronunciation: /ɹɪŋ/, /ˈɹɪŋɡ/ 1. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: physical 2. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: physical Example: His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement. Example: The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. 3. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: UK, physical 4. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: UK, physical 5. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: physical Example: onion rings Example: calamari rings 6. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: physical 7. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: physical, vulgar Example: Lick my ring! 8. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: historical, physical 9. A solid object in the shape of a circle. Labels: physical 10. A group of objects arranged in a circle. Labels: physical Example: a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood Example: And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing. 11. A group of objects arranged in a circle. Labels: physical 12. A group of objects arranged in a circle. Labels: UK, physical 13. A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something. Example: a ring of grime around the bathtub 14. Ellipsis of webring. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites. 15. 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. Example: Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. Example: “If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!” Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. 16. 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. 17. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices. Example: a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale) Example: the ruling ring at Constantinople 18. A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule. Example: a benzene ring 19. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles. 20. A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek. 21. An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter. Labels: historical Example: The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties 22. A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring). Example: Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3. 23. Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle. 24. The twenty-fifth Lenormand card. 25. A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.