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ring noun

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
  • A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
  • (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
  • (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
  • A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  • (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
 anello
  • 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.
 ring, anello

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.
 anello

ring verb

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
  • (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
 suonare, scampanellare
  • (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
  • (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
 suonare

ring verb

  /ɹɪŋ/
  • (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  • (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.
 inanellare

ring noun

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

ringing noun

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

ringed adjective

  /ɹɪŋd/
  • Marked with rings, circles, or loops.
 anellato
ringed plover
corriere grosso
blue-ringed octopus
polpo dagli anelli blu
little ringed plover
corriere piccolo
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