Значення

значень: 15
  1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

    a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)

  2. A crowbar.

  3. A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.

    a person who is almost identical to another

  4. (Австралія)A stockman, a cowboy.

  5. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.

    (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg

  6. (незлічуване)A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

  7. (Британія, діалектне)A top performer.

  8. (Австралія)The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

  9. (сленг)Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.

  10. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

    Near-synonym: hustler

    In this next clip from the security camera, we see that the rube flashing his wad of cash thinks he'll win, but he doesn't realize that the guy in the gray shirt is a ringer.

  11. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.

  12. (Британія, сленг)A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.

Приклади

речень: 6
  1. Tom is a dead ringer for John.

  2. They're dead ringers for each other.

  3. He's a dead ringer for his brother.

    deEr sieht seinem Bruder zum Verwechseln ähnlich.

  4. Many companies and entrepreneurs have been put through the ringer this year.

  5. Turn cell phone ringers off.

    ruОтключите звонки на телефонах.

Походження

From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.

From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.

From ring (“to surround”) + -er.

Unknown. Probably so named after the custom of ringing a bell to denote the winner of a contest or competition.

Some senses may derive from ring the changes (“run through variations; enliven; pass counterfeit money; trick a shopkeeper into giving too much change”).

Unclear. Compare ring of truth, and see the "fake, impostor" sense at Etymology 4.

From ring + -er, from the noun.

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Форми

множина: ringers
Однинаringer
Множинаringers

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Синоніми

синонімів: 5
Близькі за значенням

Спільнокореневі

пов’язаних слів: 2
Пов’язаніring
Похідніhogringer

Дивіться також

сусідні слова
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