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  1. noun A circular object, form, line, or arrangement with a vacant circular center.
  2. noun A small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.
  3. noun A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something: a napkin ring.
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  • The whole poem which he compares to a ring was the ring of a strong male finger; but the posy of the ring, and the comparison is again his own, tells how it was a gift hammered and filed during the years of smithcraft “in memoriam”; in memory and also with a hope. —  Robert Browning
  • She made herself dial the next number, and as as the ring was answered, she started again on her practiced spiel. —  Texas Lawman
  • A swivelled ring was attached to the end of the shaft of this weapon, and attached to the ring was a long, slender cord with a hand loop at its extremity. —  Pirates of Venus
  • They had never questioned the boy that Darian called "Jonny Brede." —  The Robin And The Kestrel
  • The pull of the ring was a force against which I had continually to fight as I walked along the beach, first paralleling the platform and then away from it. —  The Zero Stone
 

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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hring; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English ringen, from Old English hringan.

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  1. from Middle English ring, ryng, also rink, rynk, from Anglo-Saxon hring = Old Saxon hring = OFries. hring, ring = Dutch ring = Middle Low German rink, Low German ring, rink = Old High German hring, ring, Middle High German rinc (ring-), German ring = Icelandic hringr = Swedish Danish ring (= Gothic (Moesogothic) *hriggs, not recorded), a ring, circle; cf. French rang, a row, rank (see rank), French harangue = Spanish Portuguese arenga = Italian aringa, harangue, etc. (see harangue), from Old High German; = OSlav. krang̮, circle, kranglǔ, round, = Russian krugǔ, a circle, round; supposed to be akin also to L. circus = Greek κρίκος, κίρκος (see circus), Sanskrit chakra (for *kakra), a wheel, circle. Hence ult. rink, rank, range, arrange, derange, harangue.
  2. from Middle English ringen, from Anglo-Saxon hringian (also in comp. ymb-hringian, surround, encircle) = Dutch ringen, ring, wear a ring, = Old High German gehringen, Middle High German ringen; cf. G. (um-)ringen, surround, = Icelandic hringa = Swedish ringa = Danish ringe, furnish with a ring; from the noun: see ring, n.
  3. from Middle English ringen, ryngen (preterit ringde, plural ringden, ringeden; also (by conformity with sang, sung, etc.) preterit rang, rong, plural rungen, rongen, ronge, past participle rungen, i-rungen, i-runge), from Anglo-Saxon hringan (weak verb, preterit hring-de), clash, ring, = Middle Dutch ringhen, Dutch ringen = Icelandic hringja = Swedish ringa = Danish ringe, ring; cf. Icelandic hrang, a din, Danish rangle, rattle; prob. orig. imitative, or later considered so; perhaps akin to L. clangere, sound, clang: see clang, clank, and cf. clink, ting, tink, tinkle, etc.
  4. from ring, v.
 

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