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Vinony

ring

noun

  1. circular band worn as ornamental jewelry
  2. mathematical structure
  3. diacritic sign that may appear above or below letters
  4. layer of protection in computer systems
  5. mathematical structure
  6. mathematical structure
  7. act or process of making or causing to make a sound of a bell, ringing a bell, emitting a high clear noise (like a bell)
  8. ring true (or ring of some other attribute), sounds like
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verb

  1. to (cause) to make a sound of a bell, ring a bell, emit a high clear noise (like a bell)
  2. to call by using a telephone
  3. ring true (or ring of some other attribute), sounds like
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪŋ/ / /ˈɹɪŋɡ/

name

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.
  2. A parish of County Waterford, Ireland.
  3. An unincorporated community in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.

noun

  1. A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
  2. A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English ryngen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *hringijan, from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną (“to ring”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch ringen (“to ring”), Danish ringe (“to ring”), Swedish ringa (“to ring”), Faroese ringja (“to ring up, telephone”), Icelandic hringja (“to ring”), West Frisian ringelje (“to ring”), Dutch rinkelen (“to ring, jingle”), Faroese ringla (“to tinkle, jingle”).

  1. Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

    “The bells were ringing in the town.”

  2. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

    “The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.”

    “The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.”

  3. To produce (a sound) by ringing.

    “They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.”

  4. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

    “Whose mobile phone is ringing?”

  5. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

    “That does not ring true.”

  6. To telephone (someone).

    “I will ring you when we arrive.”

  7. to resound, reverberate, echo.

    “[…] And many an old philosophy ⁠On Argive heights divinely sang, ⁠And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady.”

    “So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.”

  8. To produce music with bells.

    “Four Bells admit Twenty-four changes in Ringing”

  9. To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)

    “The checkout girl rang it into his total, and he paid the bill.”

    “On presentation of the item at the checkout the original price sticker was concealed from the checkout assistant and a sticker of $38.88 exhibited on the item. The checkout operator rang on the lesser sum, a mistake known to Dronjak. He was subsequently charged with theft.”

  10. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.