The meaning of Rings

noun

A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.

Usage examples:

A defensive alliance between australia and new zealand

noun

A group of countries, political parties, or people who work together because of shared interests or aims, or the act of forming such a group

Usage examples:

[ c ] switzerland does not belong to any military alliance., [ u ] alliance against our common enem…

noun

An agreement to work with another person, organization, etc. to try to achieve the same thing

Usage examples:

A business/economic/marketing alliance, forge/form/enter into an alliance with sb/sth the company w…

noun

(especially in greek and roman architecture) an open circular or oval building with a central space surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators, for the presentation of dramatic or sporting events.

Usage examples:

The opera was performed in the roman amphitheatre

noun

A circular or oval area of ground around which rows of seats are arranged on a steep slope, for watching plays, sports, etc. outside

noun

A region or part of a town, a country, or the world.

Usage examples:

Rural areas of britain

noun

A part of the earth’s surface of land and water, or a particular part of a country, city, town, etc.

Usage examples:

An industrial/suburban/mountainous area, this area of the brain is called the cerebral cortex., his…

noun

A particular part of a place, piece of land, or country

Usage examples:

This is an area of the city where 48% of the properties are rental properties., our goal is to grow…

noun

A level area surrounded by seating, in which sports, entertainments, and other public events are held.

Usage examples:

Whole towns could be surrounded, or a mile-wide dragnet thrown over an area which contained sportin…

noun

(often in names) a group of people organized for a joint purpose.

Usage examples:

The national association of probation officers

noun

A group of people united in an organization because of their common interests

Usage examples:

The aarp, the american association of retired persons, is a huge organization with millions of memb…

noun

A group of people or organizations who work together for a particular purpose, often used in the names of particular organizations

Usage examples:

The creation of more part-time jobs is supported by the employers' association., a business/profess…

noun

A flat, thin strip or loop of material, used as a fastener, for reinforcement, or as decoration.

Usage examples:

Wads of banknotes fastened with gummed paper bands

verb

Provide or fit (an object) with something in the form of a strip or ring, for reinforcement or decoration.

Usage examples:

Doors are banded with iron to make them stronger

verb

(of people or organizations) form a group to achieve a mutual objective.

Usage examples:

Local people banded together to fight the company

noun

A hollow metal object, typically in the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, especially by means of a clapper inside.

Usage examples:

The church bells tolled

verb

Provide with a bell or bells.

Usage examples:

The young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them

verb

(of a stag or buck) make a cry at rutting time.

Usage examples:

The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks.

noun

A low-pitched, resonant sound of the kind made by a large bell.

Usage examples:

The clock had struck the hour and it was only three bongs

verb

(especially of a bell) emit a low-pitched, resonant sound.

Usage examples:

Several eyes looked at the clock, its trusty chimes bonged 3: 00.

noun

A water pipe used for smoking cannabis or other drugs.

Usage examples:

In the ten years since first trying cannabis, i have been a regular smoker of pure, high quality ca…

noun

A low, continuous humming or murmuring sound, made by or similar to that made by an insect.

Usage examples:

The buzz of the bees

verb

Make a low, continuous humming sound.

Usage examples:

Mosquitoes were buzzing all around us

verb

To make a continuous, low sound such as the sound some insects make, or to move quickly while making this sound

Usage examples:

[ i ] something was buzzing around me as i tried to sleep., [ t ] all were expected to run, literal…

noun

A secret political clique or faction.

Usage examples:

A cabal of dissidents

noun

A small group of people who plan secretly to take action, especially political action

Usage examples:

He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime.

verb

Give (a baby or animal) a specified name.

Usage examples:

They called their daughter hannah

noun

A cry made as a summons or to attract someone's attention.

Usage examples:

A nearby fisherman heard their calls for help

phrasal verb

Get or try to get into communication by telephone

phrasal verb

To telephone someone

Usage examples:

He used to call me up in the middle of the night ., i just wanted to call up and say "thanks.", he …

phrasal verb

To phone someone

Usage examples:

Six months later, he called me up and asked if i wanted to work on the project., airplane mechanics…

noun

A set of bells played using a keyboard or by an automatic mechanism similar to a piano roll.

Usage examples:

They visited many places of interest during their stay including the magnificent st colman's cathed…

noun

An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.

Usage examples:

The colombian drug cartels

noun

A group of similar independent companies or countries who join together to control prices and limit competition

noun

A group of similar companies who agree prices between them in order to increase profits and limit competition

Usage examples:

Operate/form a cartel supermarkets were accused of operating a cartel on the price of many staple f…

noun

A small room in which a prisoner is locked up or in which a monk or nun sleeps.

Usage examples:

The authorities locked all remaining inmates in their cells

noun

The smallest basic unit of a plant or animal

noun

Another word for cell phone

Usage examples:

Call me on my cell.

noun

A melodious ringing sound, as produced by striking a bell.

Usage examples:

The chimes of big ben

verb

(of a bell or clock) make melodious ringing sounds, typically to indicate the time.

Usage examples:

The grandfather clock in the next room chimed

noun

The projecting rim at the end of a cask.

Usage examples:

There is disclosed a cask and chime assembly wherein the cask has end surface side wall portions of…

noun

A round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre).

Usage examples:

Draw a circle with a compass

verb

Move all the way around (someone or something), especially more than once.

Usage examples:

They were circling athens airport

noun

A circular band, typically one made of precious metal, worn on the head as an ornament.

Usage examples:

A circlet rested atop his head, and was adorned with a single, four-pointed star.

noun

A circular decoration, especially for the head, or a piece of jewellery in the shape of a circle

Usage examples:

The girls pick the flowers and twist them into circlets they put on their heads., the necklace is a…

noun

A roughly circular line, route, or movement that starts and finishes at the same place.

Usage examples:

I ran a circuit of the village

verb

Move all the way around (a place or thing).

Usage examples:

The trains will follow the northern line, circuiting the capital

noun

A closed system esp. of wires through which electricity can flow

Usage examples:

Big electronic circuits can carry huge amounts of data., holiday phone calls always overload the ci…

verb

Restrict (something) within limits.

Usage examples:

The minister's powers are circumscribed both by tradition and the organization of local government

noun

A loud, resonant metallic sound or series of sounds.

Usage examples:

The steel door slammed shut with a clang

verb

Make or cause to make a clang.

Usage examples:

The bell of a fire engine clanged

verb

Make or cause to make a clang.

Usage examples:

The bell of a fire engine clanged

noun

A loud, resonant metallic sound or series of sounds.

Usage examples:

The steel door slammed shut with a clang

verb

Present participle of clang

Usage examples:

He woke up to hear the sound of bells clanging in the distance., [ + obj + adj ] she clanged the m…

noun

A sharp ringing sound, such as that made by striking metal or glass.

Usage examples:

The clink of ice in tall glasses

verb

Make or cause to make a clink.

Usage examples:

His ring clinked against the crystal

noun

Prison.

Usage examples:

Some bloke he'd met in clink

adjective

Making a sharp ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Clinking chains

verb

Make or cause to make a clink.

Usage examples:

His ring clinked against the crystal

noun

A short ringing sound like pieces of glass or metal knocking lightly together

Usage examples:

The clinking of glasses, all you hear is the clinking of hammers and chisels., the room echoed to t…

noun

A large theatre, cinema, or stadium.

Usage examples:

The london coliseum

proper noun

The name since medieval times of the amphitheatrum flavium, a vast amphitheatre in rome, begun c.75 ad.

noun

A large amphitheatre (= a circular or oval area with seats around it for watching sports and entertainments), especially one built by the ancient romans

Usage examples:

The octagon would hold four roman colosseums., romans used to go to the big colosseum to watch glad…

verb

Join or merge to form a single unit or substance.

Usage examples:

Combine the flour with the margarine and salt

noun

A group of people or companies acting together for a commercial purpose.

Usage examples:

One of the world's biggest food and personal products combines

verb

Harvest (a crop) by means of a combine harvester.

Usage examples:

He combined ten acres of linseed

noun

A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Usage examples:

The italian confederacy known as the lombard league

noun

The eleven southern states that left the us and fought against the north in the us civil war

noun

An organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.

Usage examples:

A confederation of trade unions

noun

A group of countries, organizations, or people who have joined together for economic or political reasons

Usage examples:

[ c ] a union confederation

noun

An organization consisting of different groups of people, countries, or companies working together for business or political reasons

Usage examples:

Never before has a confederation of small businesses so seriously challenged the onslaught of big d…

verb

Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).

Usage examples:

He does not confine his message to high politics

noun

The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.

Usage examples:

Within the confines of the hall escape was difficult

verb

To keep someone or something within limits

Usage examples:

The animals were confined in a large pen., harris does not confine her stage work to broadway., can…

noun

An association, typically of several companies.

Usage examples:

It would move the commissioning of care to local authorities, giving democratic control of the heal…

noun

A small group of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people.

Usage examples:

A coterie of friends and advisers

noun

A small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them

Usage examples:

A coterie of writers

noun

A group of people who work on and operate a ship, aircraft, etc.

Usage examples:

He was one of nine members of the crew killed when the plane went down

verb

Provide (a craft or vehicle) with a group of people to operate it.

Usage examples:

Normally the boat is crewed by five people

verb

Past of crow2.

noun

A face of a clock or watch that is marked to show units of time.

Usage examples:

The dial on your dive watch would send a geiger counter into cardiac arrest.

verb

Call (a phone number) by turning a dial or using a keypad or touchscreen.

Usage examples:

She dialled 999

verb

Make a ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Cash registers were dinging softly

exclamation

Used to imitate a metallic ringing sound resembling a bell.

Usage examples:

The wicked witch - ding, dong - isn't dead anymore.

noun

A mark or dent on the bodywork of a car or other vehicle.

Usage examples:

You stop the dents and the dings in your own garage, but what about in the parking lot?

verb

Make a ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Cash registers were dinging softly

verb

Dent (something).

Usage examples:

‘they were dinged up a lot last year, and they were really good,’ says one sec offensive coordinator.

exclamation

Used to imitate a metallic ringing sound resembling a bell.

Usage examples:

The wicked witch - ding, dong - isn't dead anymore.

noun

A flat, thin circular object.

Usage examples:

Coins were made by striking a blank disc of metal

verb

Hold (someone) closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection.

Usage examples:

Aunt sophie embraced her warmly

noun

An act of holding someone closely in one's arms.

Usage examples:

They were locked in an embrace

verb

To hold someone close to you with your arms to express affection, love, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone

Usage examples:

[ i/t ] they embraced (each other) before saying good-bye., he has wholeheartedly embraced life in …

verb

Form a circle around; surround.

Usage examples:

The town is encircled by fortified walls

verb

To surround or form a circle around something

Usage examples:

A parking lot encircles the mall.

verb

Surround or close off on all sides.

Usage examples:

The entire estate was enclosed with walls

verb

To surround

Usage examples:

The garden is enclosed by four walls., please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

verb

To include something inside a letter or parcel

Usage examples:

Apply in writing, enclosing a current cv, to the address below., please find enclosed an applicatio…

noun

An area that is surrounded by a barrier.

Usage examples:

A deer enclosure

verb

Surround and have or hold within.

Usage examples:

This area of london encompasses piccadilly to the north and st james's park to the south

noun

A group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.

Usage examples:

The russian federation

noun

A group of organizations, states, etc., that have united to form a larger organization or government

Usage examples:

Canada is a federation of provinces and territories.

noun

A group of organizations, regions, countries, etc. that have joined together to form a larger organization or government

Usage examples:

A federation of states/companies/trade unions, etc. the united states is a federation of 50 individ…

noun

An area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.

Usage examples:

A wheat field

verb

Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.

Usage examples:

First, he took his eyes off the ball while fielding at short leg, and failed to notice that sarwan …

adjective

Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batsman or batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.

abbreviation

Gas.

symbol

The acceleration due to gravity, equal to 9.81 m/s2.

noun

The seventh letter of the alphabet.

noun

An organized group of criminals.

Usage examples:

A gang of bank robbers

verb

(of a number of people) form a group or gang.

Usage examples:

Three banks ganged together to form a ‘virtual bank’

verb

Go; proceed.

Usage examples:

Gang to your bed, lass

verb

Come to have (something); receive.

Usage examples:

I got a letter from him the other day

noun

See have.

verb

Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

verb

Encircle (a person or part of the body) with a belt or band.

Usage examples:

A young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood

noun

A cutting or critical remark.

Usage examples:

His girds were oblique, and touched to the quick

verb

To tie something around your body or part of your body

Usage examples:

The knights girded themselves for battle (= put on their swords and fighting clothes).

noun

A belt or cord worn round the waist.

Usage examples:

Her waist was defined by a gold chain girdle

verb

Encircle (the body) with a girdle.

Usage examples:

The friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist

noun

A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food; a griddle.

Usage examples:

Place a girdle or heavy non-stick frying pan on a medium heat.

noun

The solid surface of the earth.

Usage examples:

He lay on the ground

verb

Short for ground bass.

adjective

Past and past participle of grind.

noun

A circle of light shown around or above the head of a saint or holy person to represent their holiness.

Usage examples:

When used for human figures, the halo represents holiness or sanctity, and its iconography is devel…

verb

Surround with or as if with a halo.

Usage examples:

Gas lamps haloed in mist

combining form

Relating to salinity.

Usage examples:

Halophile

noun

A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material, especially one used for binding the staves of barrels or forming part of a framework.

Usage examples:

All edges will meet properly and the barrel will hold liquid without any agent other than the hoops…

verb

Bind or encircle with or as with hoops.

Usage examples:

A man was hooping a barrel

noun

A ring of wood, metal, or plastic

Usage examples:

Dad put up a basketball hoop in the driveway on the front of the garage.

noun

A light ringing sound such as that made by metal objects being shaken together.

Usage examples:

The jingle of a bridle

verb

Make or cause to make a light metallic ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Her bracelets were jingling

verb

A metallic sound

verb

Make or cause to make a light metallic ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Her bracelets were jingling

noun

A light ringing sound such as that made by metal objects being shaken together.

Usage examples:

The jingle of a bridle

noun

A short slogan, verse, or tune designed to be easily remembered, especially as used in advertising.

Usage examples:

He makes up advertising jingles

noun

A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force.

Usage examples:

The country's ruling military junta

noun

A small group, esp. of military officers, that rules a country after taking power by force

noun

The sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

Usage examples:

I was sure anyone within five miles would have heard it the way they hear a church bell's knell or …

verb

(of a bell) ring solemnly, especially for a death or funeral.

Usage examples:

I could almost hear the two-tone foghorns knelling my demise.

noun

A death knell

noun

A collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for mutual protection or cooperation.

Usage examples:

The league of nations

verb

Join in a league or alliance.

Usage examples:

Oscar had leagued with other construction firms

noun

A former measure of distance by land, usually about three miles.

Usage examples:

In 1803 napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from paris.

noun

A shape produced by a curve that bends round and crosses itself.

Usage examples:

Make a loop in the twine

verb

Form (something) into a loop or loops; encircle.

Usage examples:

She looped her arms around his neck

noun

A circular shape made by something long and narrow in which the two ends cross each other, leaving an open space within

Usage examples:

A loop of thread from my sweater caught on a nail., the exit ramp makes a loop under the elevated h…

noun

A large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.

Usage examples:

A mob of protesters

verb

Crowd round (someone) or into (a place) in an unruly way.

Usage examples:

He was mobbed by autograph hunters

noun

A large group of people gathered together who are often uncontrollable or violent

Usage examples:

He arrived at the airport to find a mob of adoring fans waiting for him., she was mobbed by her fan…

noun

An organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department.

Usage examples:

A research organization

noun

A loud ringing of a bell or bells.

Usage examples:

The bell rang again, a long, loud peal

verb

(of a bell or bells) ring loudly or in a peal.

Usage examples:

All the bells of the city began to peal

verb

To sound loudly

Usage examples:

The bells pealed from the town hall tower., a peal of thunder woke him up.

noun

A telephone.

Usage examples:

A few seconds later the phone rang

verb

Contact someone by phone.

Usage examples:

He phoned her at work

noun

A speech sound; the smallest discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech.

Usage examples:

It has been shown that enlarging the phone set and using more alternative symbols to represent part…

noun

A raised level surface on which people or things can stand.

Usage examples:

There are viewing platforms where visitors may gape at the chasm

noun

A flat, raised area or structure

Usage examples:

We waited on the platform for the train to arrive from boston., he campaigned on a platform of redu…

noun

A particular computer technology that can be used with some types of software programs but not with others

Usage examples:

Companies are creating standard platforms to collect and process massive amounts of data., a comput…

verb

Stretch out an arm in a specified direction in order to touch or grasp something.

Usage examples:

He reached over and turned off his bedside light

noun

An act of reaching out with one's arm.

Usage examples:

She made a reach for him

idiom

Sound loudly

phrasal verb

Make a clear resonant sound.

Usage examples:

A shot rang out

phrasal verb

Usher something out by or as by ringing a bell.

Usage examples:

The bells were beginning to ring out the old year

adjective

Having or emitting a clear resonant sound.

Usage examples:

A ringing voice

noun

An act or sound of ringing.

Usage examples:

The ringing of fire alarms

verb

Surround (someone or something), especially for protection or containment.

Usage examples:

The courthouse was ringed with police

adjective

Shaped like a circle or cylinder.

Usage examples:

She was seated at a small, round table

noun

A circular piece of something.

Usage examples:

Cut the pastry into rounds

adverb

So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.

Usage examples:

A plane circled round overhead

noun

The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

Usage examples:

Drugs, crime, and other dangers to society

noun

People considered as a group, or a group of people who live together in a particular social system

Usage examples:

[ u ] society is changing little by little., [ c ] societies change over the course of time., [ u ]…

noun

People in general living together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things, and sharing the work that needs to be done

Usage examples:

Society cannot expect perfection in products and services, but it can expect that corporations will…

noun

Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.

Usage examples:

Light travels faster than sound

verb

Emit or cause to emit sound.

Usage examples:

A loud buzzer sounded

adjective

In good condition; not damaged, injured, or diseased.

Usage examples:

They returned safe and sound

noun

The action of measuring the depth of a body of water.

Usage examples:

The tedium of dredging and sounding very likely accounted for the high attrition of ship's personne…

adjective

Giving forth sound, especially loud or resonant sound.

Usage examples:

He went in with a sounding plunge

verb

Emit or cause to emit sound.

Usage examples:

A loud buzzer sounded

noun

An athletic or sports ground with tiers of seats for spectators.

Usage examples:

In fact, it would be a fair point to state that mandatory seating in premier league stadia has play…

noun

A large structure consisting of many rows of seats surrounding an area of land on which sports are played and where sometimes other public events happen

Usage examples:

A football stadium, yankee stadium

verb

Be all round (someone or something).

Usage examples:

The hotel is surrounded by its own gardens

noun

A thing that forms a border or edging round an object.

Usage examples:

An oak fireplace surround

verb

To be around something on all sides

Usage examples:

Snow-capped mountains surround the city., the house was surrounded by dense woods., i’m interested …

noun

A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote a common interest.

Usage examples:

Large-scale buyouts involving a syndicate of financial institutions

verb

Control or manage by a syndicate.

Usage examples:

We syndicate stores for retailers, which have fixed-price as their model.

noun

A group of people or companies that join together in order to share the cost of a business operation, such as the buying and publishing of newspaper stories, photographs, etc.

noun

A system for transmitting voices over a distance using wire or radio, by converting acoustic vibrations to electrical signals.

Usage examples:

A telephone call

verb

Contact (someone) using the telephone.

Usage examples:

He telephoned his wife at 9.30

verb

Electronic equipment that transmits sound over distances

verb

Make or cause to make a light, clear ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Cool water tinkled in the stone fountains

noun

A light, clear ringing sound.

Usage examples:

The distant tinkle of a cow bell

verb

To make light, ringing sounds

Usage examples:

The wind chimes tinkled in the breeze., we heard the tinkle of ice as he stirred the lemonade.

verb

Make or cause to make a light, clear ringing sound.

Usage examples:

Cool water tinkled in the stone fountains

noun

A light, clear ringing sound.

Usage examples:

The distant tinkle of a cow bell

noun

An act of urinating.

Usage examples:

You have to pay to go in for a tinkle

noun

A ringing or tinkling sound.

Usage examples:

The tiny tintinnabulation, faint as fairy bells

noun

The act of ringing bells, or a sound like a bell ringing

Usage examples:

I heard the faint tintinnabulation of a distant church bell., she creates a hideous tintinnabulatio…

noun

An alarm bell or signal.

Usage examples:

He used his resignation as a tocsin to warn of the danger of dictatorship

noun

A charge payable to use a bridge or road.

Usage examples:

Motorway tolls

verb

Charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road).

Usage examples:

The transport minister opposes tolling existing roads

noun

A single ring of a bell.

Usage examples:

She heard the cambridge school bell utter a single toll

verb

Charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road).

Usage examples:

The transport minister opposes tolling existing roads

verb

(with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement.

Usage examples:

The cathedral bells began to toll for evening service

noun

A charge payable to use a bridge or road.

Usage examples:

Motorway tolls

noun

The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context.

Usage examples:

He was opposed to closer political or economic union with europe

noun

The act or the state of being joined together

noun

An organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights and may agree pay, working conditions, etc. with their employers

Usage examples:

"no date has yet been set for a strike, the union said in a statement to the press this morning., t…