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ring
• (noun)
1. A circumscribing object (looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring, etc.)
2. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.
3. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
4. A place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring.
5. A circular arena where circus acts take place, a circus ring.
6. A group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a Crime ring.
7. An algebraic structure which is a group under addition and a monoid under multiplication.
The set of integers, $\mathbb\left\{Z\right\}$, is the prototypical ring.
8. A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
9. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
10. An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
• 1866: The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.
• (verb)
1. To surround or enclose.
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
2. To cut a ring around.
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
3. To attach a ring to.
Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
4. To attach an identity ring to a bird.
We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

• (noun)
1. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
2. A pleasant or correct sound.
The name has a nice ring to it.
3. A telephone call.
I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

• (verb)
1. To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Whose mobile phone is ringing?
2. To make a (church) bell produce sound.
The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
3. Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
That does not ring true.
4. To telephone someone.
I will ring you when we arrive.