English Dictionary

wring

/ɹɪŋ/

verb

To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. / To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.

She tried to wring out the wet towel.

意味（1）

To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.

I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry.

意味（2）

To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.

Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl.

意味（3）

To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.

The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.

意味（4）

To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.

Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!

意味（5）

To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.

to wring one's hands (with worry, etc.)

意味（6）

To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).

[…] the King began to find where his Shooe did wring him, and that it was his depressing of the House of YORKE, that did ranckle and fester the affections of his People.

意味（7）

To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.

The uncertainty of wringing effect is 6.9 nm, which can be determined by wringing the same gauge block on the base plate repeatedly. The uncertainty of optical components can be estimated by wave-front errors of each components, λ/10~ ...

意味（8）

(intransitive, obsolete) To twist, as if in pain.

[…] ’tis all men’s office to speak patience

[…] ’tis all men’s office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow.

意味（9）

(obsolete) To give an incorrect meaning to (words, teachings, etc.).

Lord how dare these men thus wring the scriptures?

意味（10）

(obsolete) To subject (someone) to extortion; to afflict or oppress in order to enforce compliance.

To wring the widow from her custom’d right,

意味（11）

(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.

to wring a mast