ring
n//ɹɪŋ//ring, ringa, låta
(jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
(UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
(astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
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.
(geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
(algebra) 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.
(algebra) 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.
(intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
(transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
(transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
(intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
(intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.