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ring noun

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
sormus, rengas
  • A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
  • (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
  • (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
rengas, sormus
  • (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
  • A circular group of people or objects.
  • An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
rengas, rinki
  • 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.
kehä, areena
  • A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  • (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
rengas
  • (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
tynnyri

ring noun

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (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 operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
  • (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.
rengas, sormus

ring verb

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  • (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
soittaa
  • (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
soida
  • (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
soida, kilistä, piristä
  • (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
kaikua
  • (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
kailottaa, toistella, vakuutella
  • (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
kuulostaa, soittaa (jollekin)
  • (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
soittaa kelloja

ring verb

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
kaarrella
  • (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
kaulata
  • (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  • (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  • (AU, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
rengastaa
  • (transitive) To enclose or surround.
ympäröidä

ring noun

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (colloquial) A telephone call.
puhelinsoitto, soitto
  • The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
  • (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
sointi

ringing noun

  /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/
  • The sound of something that rings.
pirinä
  • A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
rengastus
  • The quality of being resonant.
resonointi

rings noun

  /ɹɪŋz/
  • (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar.
renkaat

ring noun

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
joukkorengas
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