Ring

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
2. isim A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

   “His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.”

3. isim A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
4. isim A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
5. isim A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

   “onion rings”

6. isim In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
7. isim The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.

   “Lick my ring!”

8. isim 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 solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
9. isim A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
10. isim A circular group of people or objects.

    “a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood”

11. isim A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
12. isim A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
13. isim A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.

    “a ring of grime around the bathtub”

14. isim Ellipsis of webring.

    “Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.”

15. isim 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.

    “Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.”

16. isim The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
17. isim 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)”

18. isim A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

    “a benzene ring”

19. isim A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
20. isim A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
21. fiil To enclose or surround.

    “The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.”

22. fiil 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.”

23. fiil To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

    “We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.”

24. fiil To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

    “to ring a pig’s snout”

25. fiil To rise in the air spirally.

    “[…] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!”

26. fiil To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
27. fiil To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.

    “‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’”

28. isim The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

    “The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.”

29. isim A pleasant or correct sound.

    “The name has a nice ring to it.”

30. isim A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

    “Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.”