Meaning

17 senses
  1. (transitive)To enclose or surround.

    The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

    окружа́тьokružátʹ, окружи́тьokružítʹ

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

    They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

  3. (transitive)To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

    We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

    beringen

    окольцо́выватьokolʹcóvyvatʹ, окольцева́тьokolʹcevátʹ

    attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify

  4. (transitive)To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

    to ring a pig’s snout

    ring or echo with sound

  5. To rise in the air spirally.

    кружи́тьkružítʹ

  6. (transitive)To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

  7. (Australia, transitive)To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.

  8. (intransitive)Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

    The bells were ringing in the town.

  9. (transitive)To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

    The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

  10. (transitive)To produce (a sound) by ringing.

    They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

    läuten

    звони́тьzvonítʹ

    sound loudly and sonorously

  11. (figuratively, intransitive)To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

    Whose mobile phone is ringing?

    klingeln

    звене́тьzvenétʹ

  12. (figuratively, intransitive)Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

    That does not ring true.

    klingen

    звуча́тьzvučátʹ

Examples

2123 sentences
  1. How much is this ring worth?

    Скільки коштує ця обручка? — deniko

    ruСколько стоит это кольцо? — odexed

    deWie viel ist dieser Ring wert? — cost

  2. Tom took off his wedding ring.

    Том зняв своб обручку. — deniko

    ruТом снял своё обручальное кольцо. — odexed

    deTom nahm seinen Ehering ab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom took his wedding ring off.

    Том зняв своб обручку. — deniko

    ruТом снял своё обручальное кольцо. — odexed

    deTom nahm seinen Ehering ab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Tom bought Mary an expensive ring.

    Том купив Мері дорогу обручку. — deniko

    ruТом купил Мэри дорогое кольцо. — marafon

  5. I never take off this ring.

    Я ніколи не знімаю цього кільця. — Ahha

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
(intr.) to produce a resonant sound:
to telephone (someone):
to resound, reverberate, echo:
Русский
By meaning 6
(intr.) to produce a resonant sound:
to surround or enclose:
to attach a ring to for identification:
falconry: to rise in the air spirally:
to appear to be:
to telephone (someone):
Deutsch
By meaning 4
(intr.) to produce a resonant sound:
to attach a ring to for identification:
to appear to be:
to telephone (someone):

Origin

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germani

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range.

From Middle English ryngen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *hringijan, from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną (“to ring”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch ringen (“to ring”), Danish ringe (“to ring”), Swedish ringa (“to ring”), Faroese ringja (“to ring up, telephone”), Icelandic hringja (“to ring”), West Frisian ringelje (“to ring”), Dutch rinkelen (“to ring, jingle”), Faroese ringla (“to tinkle, jingle”).

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Forms

rings, ringing, ringed, ringed
Base formring · to ring
3rd person singularrings
Present participleringing
Past simpleringed / rang
Past participleringed / rung

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyring
he, she, itrings

Past simpleLesson

all personsringed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ringed
he, she, ithas ringed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ring

Phrasal verbs

8 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the phone rang
  • the bell rang
  • the telephone rang
  • phone rang
  • wedding ring
  • bell rang
  • telephone rang
  • engagement ring
  • ring the bell
  • the doorbell rang
  • diamond ring
  • a wedding ring

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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