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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ring /ˈrɪŋ/
 環,環形物,環狀,拳擊場,戒指,競賽,集團,鈴聲,鐘聲,打電話,聲調(vt.)包圍

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 ring /ˈrɪŋ/ 名詞
 環

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 ring
 記號環

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 ring
 使能寫環

From: Network Terminology

 ring
 環 鈴

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring v. t. [imp. Rang or Rung p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]
 1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
 2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
 The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
 Hath rung night's yawning peal.   --Shak.
 3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
 To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
 To ring the changes upon. See under Change.
 To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. --Tennyson.
 To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. --Sir W. Scott.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring, v. i.
 1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
    Now ringen trompes loud and clarion.   --Chaucer.
    Why ring not out the bells?   --Shak.
 2. To practice making music with bells.
 3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
    With sweeter notes each rising temple rung.   --Pope.
    The hall with harp and carol rang.   --Tennyson.
    My ears still ring with noise.   --Dryden.
 4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
    The assertion is still ringing in our ears.   --Burke.
 5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring, n.
 1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
 2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
    The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears.   --Bacon
 3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
    As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world.   --Fuller.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring n.  A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
 2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
    Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring.   --Chaucer.
    The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.   --Shak.
 3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
 Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring,
 Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.   --E. Smith.
 4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. “The road was an institution, the ring was an institution.”
 5. A circular group of persons.
 And hears the Muses in a ring
 Aye round about Jove's alter sing.   --Milton.
 6. Geom. (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
 7. Astron. & Navigation 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.
 8. Bot. An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
 9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
    The ruling ring at Constantinople.   --E. A. Freeman.
 Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under Chain.
 Ring blackbird Zool., the ring ousel.
 Ring canal Zool., the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.
 Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. Zool. See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster.
 Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless.
 Ring fence. See under Fence.
 Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage.
 Ring formula Chem., a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under Benzene.
 Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth.
 Ring micrometer. Astron. See Circular micrometer, under Micrometer.
 Saturn's rings. See Saturn.
 Ring ousel. Zool. See Ousel.
 Ring parrot Zool., any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palaeornis torquatus, common in India, and Palaeornis Alexandri of Java.
 Ring plover. Zool. (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Aegialitis semipalmata).
 Ring snake Zool., a small harmless American snake (Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red.
 Ring stopper. Naut. See under Stopper.
 Ring thrush Zool., the ring ousel.
 The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively.
 The ring. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]
 1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. Ring these fingers.”
 2. Hort. To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
 3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ring, v. i. Falconry To rise in the air spirally.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ring
      n 1: a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity"
      2: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo
         of smoke" [syn: halo, annulus, anulus, doughnut, anchor
         ring]
      3: a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material
         used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling;
         "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"
         [syn: hoop]
      4: (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a
         closed loop [syn: closed chain] [ant: open chain]
      5: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
         gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, mob]
      6: the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the
         church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the
         tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the
         ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ringing,
          tintinnabulation]
      7: a square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants
         box or wrestle
      8: jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set
         with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every
         finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" [syn: band]
      9: a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to
         identify it (as in studies of bird migration) [syn: band]
      v 1: sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang" [syn: peal]
      2: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
         [syn: resound, echo, reverberate]
      3: make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical
         edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every
         Sunday at the local church" [syn: knell]
      4: be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river
         encircles the village" [syn: surround, environ, encircle,
          circle, round]
      5: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by
         telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two
         aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone,
          call up, phone]
      6: attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring
         birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory
         patterns" [syn: band]
      [also: rung, rang]

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Ring
    Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and
    also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Gen.
    38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority
    (Gen. 41:42; Esther 3:8-10; 8:2), and of favour and dignity
    (Luke 15:22). They were generally worn by rich men (James 2:2).
    They are mentioned by Isiah (3:21) among the adornments of
    Hebrew women.