Ring Definition
- To arouse an often indistinct memory.
- To end a performance, event, or action.
- To knock (an opponent) out by physical or other force.
- To begin a performance, event, or action.
- to stir up a memory; sound familiar
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Ring
- ring a bell
- ring down the curtain
- ring (someone's) chimes
- ring up the curtain
- ring a bell
- ring down the curtain
- ring in (or out)
- ring off
- ring the bell
- ring up
- ring up the curtain
Origin of Ring
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From Middle English ring, ryng, also rink, rynk, from Old English hring, hrincg (“ring, link of chain, fetter, festoon, anything circular, circle, circular group, border, horizon, corselet, circuit (of a year), cycle, course, orb, globe"), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“circle"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengh- (“to turn, bend"). Akin to Scots ring (“ring"), West Frisian ring (“ring"), Saterland Frisian Ring (“ring, circle"), Dutch ring (“ring, hoop"), Low German Ring (“ring"), German Ring (“ring, circle"), Swedish ring (“ring, circle"), Icelandic hringur (“ring"), Umbrian krenkatrum, cringatro (“belt"), Proto-Slavic *krÇ«gÑŠ (“circle") (Russian круг (krug)), Old English hrung (“cross-bar, spoke"), Albanian vrangull (“a wheel-shaped tool, circle motion"), rreng (“to do a prank, cheat, deceive"). More at rung.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English ringen, from Old English hringan (“to ring, sound, clash; announce by bells"), from Proto-Germanic *hringijanÄ… (“to resound, ring"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreg- (“to crow, caw, croak, shout"). Cognate with Dutch ringen (“to ring"), Danish ringe (“to ring, call"), Swedish ringa (“to ring, call"), Icelandic hringja (“to ring, call"), Lithuanian krañkti (“to caw, croak, cough"), Albanian vring (“a high-pitched sound made by waving violently a solid object").
From Wiktionary
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A shortening of German Zahlring (“number(s) ring"); coined by mathematician David Hilbert in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory, page 49.)
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English hring sker-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English ringen from Old English hringan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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