| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| ring |
| 1. n. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. |
| 2. n. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc. |
| 3. n. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc. |
| 4. n. (British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration. |
| 5. n. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove. |
| 6. n. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve. |
| 7. n. 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 s |
| 8. n. (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. |
| 9. n. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. |
| 10. n. A circular group of people or objects. |
| a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood |
| 11. n. (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet. |
| 12. n. (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge. |
| 13. n. A piece of food in the shape of a ring. |
| onion rings |
| 14. n. 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. |
| 15. n. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices. |
| a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale) |
| 16. n. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule. |
| a benzene ring |
| 17. n. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles. |
| 18. n. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek. |
| 19. n. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter. |
| 20. n. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring). |
| 21. n. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle. |
| 22. n. (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card. |
| 23. v. To surround or enclose. |
| The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas. |
| 24. v. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle. |
| They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year. |
| 25. v. To attach a ring to, especially for identification. |
| We managed to ring 22 birds this morning. |
| 26. v. To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring. |
| to ring a pig's snout |
| 27. v. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally. |
| 28. n. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. |
| The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley. |
| The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air. |
| 29. n. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound. |
| The name has a nice ring to it. |
| 30. n. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something. |
| Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood. |
| 31. n. (colloquial) A telephone call. |
| I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands. |
| 32. n. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated. |
| 33. n. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. |
| St Mary's has a ring of eight bells. |
| 34. v. (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. |
| The bells were ringing in the town. |
| 35. v. To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. |
| The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel. |
| 36. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound. |
| Whose mobile phone is ringing? |
| 37. v. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound. |
| That does not ring true. |
| 38. v. (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone). |
| I will ring you when we arrive. |
| 39. v. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo. |
| 40. v. (intransitive) To produce music with bells. |
| 41. v. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. |
| 42. n. (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 oper |
| The set of integers,\mathbbZ, is the prototypical ring. |
| 43. n. (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. |
| The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set2\mathbbZ of even integers to be a ring. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| ring |
| 1. n-c. ring; a circular piece of material |
| 2. n-c. The ring, place where sports such as boxing takes place |
| 3. n-c. (mathematics) A ring, algebraic structure |
| 4. n-c. (mathematics) A ring, planar geometrical figure |
| 5. n-c. (astronomy) A ring, collection of material orbiting some planets |
| 6. n-c. Each of the (usually three) years in a Swedish gymnasium (highschool) |
| Ann började nyss andra ring. - Ann recently began her second year at the gymnasium. |
| 7. v. imperative of ringa |
