1. s. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
2. s. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
3. s. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
4. s. (British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
5. s. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
6. s. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
7. s. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a s
8. s. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
9. s. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
10. s. A circular group of people or objects.
a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
11. s. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
12. s. (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
13. s. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
onion rings
14. s. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
15. s. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
16. s. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
a benzene ring
17. s. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
18. s. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
19. s. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
20. s. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
21. s. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
22. s. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
23. v. To surround or enclose.
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
25. v. To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
26. v. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
to ring a pig's snout
27. v. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
28. s. 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.
29. s. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
The name has a nice ring to it.
30. s. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.
31. s. (colloquial) A telephone call.
I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
32. s. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
33. s. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
34. v. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
The bells were ringing in the town.
35. v. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
36. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Whose mobile phone is ringing?
37. v. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
That does not ring true.
38. v. (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
I will ring you when we arrive.
39. v. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
40. v. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
41. v. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
42. s. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive oper
The set of integers,\mathbbZ, is the prototypical ring.
43. s. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set2\mathbbZ of even integers to be a ring.
annulus
annulus
1. s. A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure.
2. s. (geometry) The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radius.
3. s. (topology) Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radius.
4. s. (astronomy) The ring of the sun not covered by the moon in an annular solar eclipse.
5. s. (botany) Structure in a fern that consists of differentially thick-walled cells on a sporangium that bend and distort as a result of drying.
6. s. (mycology) The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a ring on the stem of a mushroom.
7. s. (oil and gas production) The space contained between the centre well bore and any external tubing. Sometimes used for separated gas flow.
doughnut
1. dona, rosquilla
doughnut
1. s. A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) shape, often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with ja
2. s. Anything in the shape of a torus.
3. s. (North America) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
4. s. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
loop
1. círculo, bucle
2. lazo, recodo
loop
1. s. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
2. s. The opening so formed.
3. s. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.
4. s. A ring road or beltway.
5. s. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
6. s. A complete circuit for an electric current.
7. s. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
8. s. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
9. s. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
10. s. (transportation) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
11. s. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
12. s. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
13. s. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
14. s. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
15. s. alternative form of loupes (mass of iron).
16. s. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
17. v. To form something into a loop.
18. v. To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
19. v. To fly an aircraft in a loop.
20. v. To move something in a loop.
21. v. To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
22. v. To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
23. v. To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
