ring

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A circular object, form, line, or arrangement.
• noun A small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.
• noun A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something.
• noun Sports A pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible.
• noun A circular movement or course, as in dancing.
• noun An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place.
• noun A rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held.
• noun The sport of boxing.
• noun An enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack.
• noun Bookmakers considered as a group.
• noun An exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests.
• noun A political contest; a race.
• noun Botany An annual ring.
• noun Mathematics The area between two concentric circles; annulus.
• noun Mathematics A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is a commutative group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.
• noun Any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix.
• noun Chemistry A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in polygonal form.
• intransitive verb To surround with or as if with a ring; encircle.
• intransitive verb To form into a ring or rings.
• intransitive verb To ornament or supply with a ring or rings.
• intransitive verb To remove a circular strip of bark around the circumference of (a tree trunk or branch); girdle.
• intransitive verb To put a ring in the nose of (an animal).
• intransitive verb To hem in (animals) by riding in a circle around them.
• intransitive verb Games To toss a ring over (a peg), as in horseshoes.
• intransitive verb To form a ring or rings.
• intransitive verb To move, run, or fly in a spiral or circular course.
• intransitive verb To give forth a clear resonant sound.
• intransitive verb To cause something to ring.
• intransitive verb To sound a bell in order to summon someone.
• intransitive verb To have a sound or character suggestive of a particular quality.
• intransitive verb To be filled with sound; resound.
• intransitive verb To hear a persistent humming or buzzing.
• intransitive verb To be filled with talk or rumor.
• intransitive verb To cause (a bell, for example) to ring.
• intransitive verb To produce (a sound) by or as if by ringing.
• intransitive verb To announce, proclaim, or signal by or as if by ringing.
• intransitive verb Chiefly British To call (someone) on the telephone. Often used with up.
• intransitive verb To test (a coin, for example) for quality by the sound it produces when struck against something.
• noun The sound created by a bell or another sonorous vibrating object.
• noun A loud sound, especially one that is repeated or continued.
• noun A telephone call.
• noun A suggestion of a particular quality.
• noun A set of bells.
• noun The act or an instance of sounding a bell.