ring
/ɹɪŋ/ verb C2- To enclose or surround. · The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
- To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it. · They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
- To attach a ring to, especially for identification. · We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
- To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring. · to ring a pig’s snout
- To rise in the air spirally.
- To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
He/she/it rings · Past ringed · Past participle ringed · -ing form ringing
Verb forms
- Base form
- ring
- He/she/it
- rings
- Past
- ringed
- Past participle
- ringed
- -ing form
- ringing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- ring around To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of ...
- ring back To return a phone call.
- ring in To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
- ring in To make a phone call to (this place).
- ring off Buzz off; go away; shut up.
- ring out To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.
- ring out To sound clearly and loudly.
- ring up To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
From the library
“Make yourself perfectly at home,” said the green girl, “and if you wish for anything ring the bell.
“They’ve taken his wedding ring!” he gasped.
Master always wore his plain gold wedding ring on the little finger of his left hand.
That ring with the rough nugget on it was above it, and the twisted snake ring on the third finger.
Other matches
- ring Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. A1
- ring A circumscribing object, A2
- ring A family of sets that is closed under finite un... C2
- ring An algebraic structure which consists of a set ... C2
- ring The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resemb... C2
- ring around To call a number of people by phone, usually a ...
- ring back To return a phone call.
- ring in To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
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