Ring

[rɪŋ]

解释:

(noun.) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; 'she had rings on every finger'; 'he noted that she wore a wedding band'.

(noun.) a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle.

(noun.) a characteristic sound; 'it has the ring of sincerity'.

(noun.) the sound of a bell ringing; 'the distinctive ring of the church bell'; 'the ringing of the telephone'; 'the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells'--E. A. Poe.

(noun.) a toroidal shape; 'a ring of ships in the harbor'; 'a halo of smoke'.

(verb.) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; 'ring birds'; 'band the geese to observe their migratory patterns'.

(verb.) sound loudly and sonorously; 'the bells rang'.

(verb.) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; 'Ring the bells'; 'My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church'.

巴纳比手打--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

(v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

(v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

(v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.

(v. i.) To practice making music with bells.

(v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.

(v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.

(v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

(n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

(n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

(n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

(n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

(n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.

(n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.

(n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.

(n.) A circular group of persons.

(n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

(n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.

(n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

(n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

(n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.

(v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.

(v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

(v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

(v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.

海伦娜编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Circle, hoop, circular line.[2]. Race-course, racing ground.[3]. [Colloquial.] Resonance, reverberation.[4]. [Colloquial, U. S.] Clique, junto, cabal, coterie, set, combination, faction, league, confederacy.

v. n. Sound, resound.

编辑:塞格雷

解释:

v.i. to sound as a bell when struck: to tinkle: to practise the art of ringing bells: to continue to sound: to be filled with report: to resound: to echo.—v.t. to cause to sound as a metal: to produce by ringing:—pa.t. rang rung; pa.p. rung.—n. a sound esp. of metals: the sound of many voices: a chime of many bells.—ns. Ring′er; Ring′ing the act of causing to sound as music-bells: resounding.—adv. Ring′ingly.—Ring backward to change the order of ringing; Ring down to conclude; Ring in (theat.) to signal the conductor to begin; Ringing of the ears a sound in the ears; Ring up to rouse by the ringing of a bell.

n. a circle: a small hoop usually of metal worn on the finger or in the ear as an ornament: a circular area for races &c.: a circular course a revolution: a clique organised to control the market: an arena or prize-ring: the commercial measure of staves for casks: (archit.) a cincture round a column: (anat.) an annulus: a group or combination of persons.—v.t. to encircle: to fit with a ring: to surround: to wed with a ring: (hort.) to cut out a ring of bark from a tree.—v.i. to move in rings.—ns. Ring′-ar′mature an armature in which the coils of wire are wound round a ring; Ring′-arm′our armour made of metal rings (see Chain-mail).—v.t. Ring′-bark to strip a ring of bark round a tree to kill it.—ns. Ring′bill the ring-necked duck; Ring′-bolt an iron bolt with a ring through a hole at one end; Ring′bone in farriery a bony callus on a horse's pastern-bone the result of inflammation: the condition caused by this; Ring′-bunt′ing the reed-bunting; Ring′-carr′ier a go-between; Ring′-dī′al a portable sun-dial; Ring′-dog an iron apparatus for hauling timber; Ring′-dott′erel the ringed plover; Ring′dove the cushat or wood-pigeon so called from a white ring or line on the neck; Ring′-drop′ping a trick practised by rogues upon simple people.—adj. Ringed surrounded as with a ring annulose annulate: wearing a wedding-ring.—ns. Ringed′-car′pet a British geometrid moth; Ring′-fence a fence continuously encircling an estate a limit; Ring′-fing′er the third finger of the left hand on which women wear their marriage-ring.—adj. Ring′-formed annular.—ns. Ring′-frame any one of a class of spinning-machines with vertical spindles; Ring′-gauge a measure consisting of a ring of fixed size used for measuring spherical objects; Ring′leader the head of a riotous body: one who opens a ball; Ring′let a little ring: a curl esp. of hair.—adj. Ring′leted.—ns. Ring′lock a puzzle-lock; Ring′-mail chain-armour; Ring′man the third finger of the hand: one interested in the prize-ring; Ring′-mas′ter one who has charge of a circus-ring and the performances in it; Ring′-mon′ey rudely formed rings anciently used for money; Ring′-neck a kind of ring-plover: the ring-necked duck; Ring′-net a net for catching butterflies; Ring′-ou′sel a species of thrush with a white band on the breast; Ring′-parr′ot a common Indian parrot; Ring′-perch the perch of North America; Ring′-plov′er a ring-necked plover; Ring′-rope a rope for hauling the cable in rough weather; Ring′-saw a scroll-saw with annular web; Ring′-small broken stones of such a size as to pass through a ring two inches in diameter; Ring′-snake the collared snake a harmless serpent of the United States; Ring′ster a member of a ring; Ring′-stop′per a piece of rope by which the ring of an anchor is secured to the cat-head.—adjs. Ring′-straked (B.) -streaked streaked with rings.—n. Ring′-tail (naut.) a studding-sail set upon the gaff of a fore-and-aft sail: a light sail set abaft and beyond the spanker: the female of the hen-harrier named from a rust-coloured ring formed by the tips of the tail-feathers when expanded.—adj. Ring′-tailed having the tail marked with bars or rings of colour as a lemur: having a tail curled at the end.—ns. Ring′-thrush the ring-ousel; Ring′-time (Shak.) time for marrying; Ring′-valve a hollow cylindrical valve; Ring′-work a material composed of rings interlinked; Ring′worm a skin disease in which itchy pimples appear in rings.—Ring the changes (see Change).—Ride or Tilt at the ring to practise the sport of riding rapidly spear in hand and carrying off with it a ring hung up; The ring pugilism and the persons connected with it.

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