Word Finder - ring

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(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.

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(physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.

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A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

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onion rings

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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.

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An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

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a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)

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A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

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a benzene ring

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A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

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A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

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An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

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A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

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Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

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The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

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To enclose or surround.

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The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

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To make an incision around; to girdle.

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They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

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To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

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We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

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To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

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to ring a pig’s snout

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To rise in the air spirally.

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To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

He slipped the ring on her finger.

We were startled by the ring of my cell phone.

If Giddon was involved in a drug ring, Tammy needed a way out.

No good calls ring in at that time of night.

His voice had the ring of a nervous third-grader giving his first speech.

She heard the phone ring and followed the sound.

He hung it up only for it to ring again.

He pulled out the engagement ring, along with a wad of lint.

He removed the ring from the box, smiling as he saw his name engraved in the interior.

When Destiny wanted to wear a ring like mommy, Carmen tied a yellow ribbon around her finger and made a bow of it on the top.

I want to get an engagement ring on her finger before she has time to change her mind again.

Does the name John Luke Grasso ring any bells?

It ceased and began to ring again.

The news out and the engagement ring twinkling on her finger, it was hard for Adrienne to keep her mind on her studies - and Brandon wasn't helping much.

She glanced at the ring and leaned forward, lowering her voice.

It was a grim lot that gathered for supper that night outside the ring of firelight.

I assigned everyone a ring tone and put their phone numbers in it, he said, looking somewhat proud.

He put the ring back and closed the jewelry box, wishing he could shut off his memories as easily.

Evelyn hugged herself before looking down at the massive diamond on her ring finger.

In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

Again, the ring tone.

With his left hand he drew Bagration toward him, and with his right, on which he wore a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagration kissed him on the neck instead.

She readied supper, careful to spend as little time in the ring of firelight as possible.

I figured this county deserves a more astute sheriff than the current candidate, so I tossed my hat in the ring this morning.

Hannah warmly greeted her friends, four coiffed women in expensive clothing with diamonds the size of her thumbnail on their ring fingers.

She also felt a Greek chariot, and the charioteer would have liked to take her round the ring; but she was afraid of "many swift horses."

He picked the ring up and stared at it absently, rolling it back and forth between his thumb and index finger.

She reached out and put her hand over the ring, stopping its infernal winking.

Off to one side was an old fire ring but no buildings or people.

Hannah no longer wore her engagement ring, and Katie wondered why she was so happy when she must know by now Gio wasn.t coming back for her.

The ring you sent her was in the toe of the stocking, and when I told her you gave it to Santa Claus for her, she said, "I do love Mrs. Hopkins."

A toothed arc fixed to the revolving platform or to the live ring serves to give motion to the bridge.

He stood before her as he had in the sparring ring, sans any clothing but judo pants.

Damian's heavy ring hung off a chain around her neck, and she clenched it.

Next to the opening was a blackened fire ring with two large boulders on either side.

Dean laughed at first at his wife's suggestion, but the more he thought about it, the more the idea had a ring of validity to it.

The Immortal rubbed the injection spot with a grimace, stretched, and climbed inside the ring in the lowermost basement in the castle.

The box held a beautiful diamond ring encircled with deep, ruby baguettes.

But if hinges are introduced at crown and springings, the calculation of the stresses in the arch ring becomes simple, as the line of pressures must pass through the hinges.

One half ring is rigidly attached to the tie and one to the hanging chain, so that the wear due to any movement is distributed over the length of the pin.

Seaside resorts are numerous and populous - on the north coast are Minster (Sheppey), Whitstable and Herne Bay; there is a ring of watering-places round the Isle of ThanetBirchington, Westgate, Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate; while to the south are Sandwich, Deal, Walmer, St Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Dover, Folkestone, Sandgate and Hythe.

As secretary of the treasury (1874-1876) he prosecuted with vigour the so-called "Whisky Ring," the headquarters of which was at St Louis, and which, beginning in 1870 or 1871, had defrauded the Federal government out of a large part of its rightful revenue from the distillation of whisky.

He was an aggressive opponent of the "Tweed Ring," and was actively allied with the antiTammany organizations, the "Irving Hall Democracy" of 1875-1890, and the "County Democracy" of 1880-1890, but upon the dissolution of the latter he became identified with Tammany.

After the victory of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805) Napoleon began to plan the formation of a ring of states surrounding, and in close alliance with, the French empire.

A second species, or race, Theropithecus obscures, distinguished by its darker hairs and the presence of a bare flesh-coloured ring round each eye, inhabits the eastern confines of Abyssinia.

Mrs. Hopkins did send me lovely ring, I do love her and little blind girls.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing?

The lint he tucked back into his pocket, and the ring he tossed on the table in front of Adrienne.

Her heart soared, and she touched the ring at her neck.

I think her story had enough of a ring of truth that I believed her.