plural of ring

(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar. / (post-mid century) Ellipsis of still rings. / A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ring

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ring in

plural of A ring

A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc. / A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.

(transitive) To enclose or surround. / (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. / (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound. / (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

(intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. / (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. / (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.

(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.