Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wearing or marked with a ring or rings.
- adj. Encircled or surrounded by bands or rings.
- adj. Zoology Formed from segmented rings; annulate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Surrounded with or as with a ring; having a ring or rings; encircled.
- In botany, surrounded by elevated or depressed circular lines or bands, as the roots or stems of some plants.
- In zoology: Annular; circular; formed into or shaped like a ring.
- Having an annulus; annulated; marked with a ring or with rings; collared: as, a ringed plover; the ringed dove; the ringed snake.
- Composed of rings; annulose, annulate, or annuloid; formed of a series of annulations: as, the ringed type of structure; a ringed worm.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
- adj. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married
- adj. having colored rings around the body
- adj. shaped like a ring
Examples
“His name ringed in dollar signs and question marks.”
“A pueblo city that scouts had described as ringed with gilded ramparts proved to be built of mere mud and clay, which happened to glimmer deceptively in the setting sun.”
“Just the name ringed in memories of sports day and Brabourne Stadium.”
“It was not necessary to procure skins of the grey or silver bear, nor that with the white ring round its neck -- known as the ringed or collared bear.”
“The ad specifically stated that police had "ringed" the capitol building and had used shotguns and teargas to dispel student protestors, that the entire student body had protested in response, and described the protesting students singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" on the Capitol steps just before the police charged them.”
Howard Schweber: Sarah Palin, the First Amendment, and Santa Claus
“Cops had not actually "ringed" the Capitol; only most, not all, of the student body had protested.”
Howard Schweber: Sarah Palin, the First Amendment, and Santa Claus
“Other seals, such as ringed seals, bearded seals, harbour seals, and spotted seals (Phoca largha) are important in the diet of indigenous people in Alaska and are harvested in significant numbers.”
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic
“Algiers Point is protected (not "ringed") by exactly the same river levees that protected downtown, the Quarter, the Garden District, and every other New Orleans neighborhood abutting the Mississippi, which is why New Orleanians refer to the slim parts of the city that escaped flooding as the "sliver by the river".”
“Delegates came up with a number of ideas to mark the occasion, including an elaborate suggestion from a journalist that the whole country be "ringed" that day by millions of people.”
“Later, the outer surface of the wall becomes 'ringed' or”
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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