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RingNoun1. A characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity". 2. A toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke". 3. A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse". 4. (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop. 5. An association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves". 6. The sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe. 7. A square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle. 8. Jewelry consisting of a circular band of a precious metal worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger". Verb1. Make a ringing sound. 2. Ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter". 3. Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church". 4. Be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village". 5. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning". 6. Attach a ring to; "ring birds". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Ring Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Gen. 38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority (Gen. 41:42; Esther 3:8-10; 8:2), and of favour and dignity (Luke 15:22). They were generally worn by rich men (James 2:2). They are mentioned by Isiah (3:21) among the adornments of Hebrew women. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Chemical Industry | A floating ring from the inside of which glass is gathered for working. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | A chained list in which the pointer of the last item points to the first item. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of wearing rings, denotes new enterprises in which you will be successful. A broken ring, foretells quarrels and unhappiness in the married state, and separation to lovers. For a young woman to receive a ring, denotes that worries over her lover's conduct will cease, as he will devote himself to her pleasures and future interest. To see others with rings, denotes increasing prosperity and many new friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | The second of two wire conductors that connect a subscriber station to the line equipment located in the serving exchange and is used to transmit voice or data signals as well as for signalling purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A point of electrical contact in a manual switchboard plug. It connects to one of the two wires in a two-wire transmission. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A projection from the base of a plug-in device extending beyond the male contacts which, in conjunction with a hole or recess in the socket, provides an axis of rotation to facilitate insertion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | A trading arena located on the floor of an exchange in which traders execute orders. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Formerly, the area on the Paris Bourse where stockbrokers traded by open outcry. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | The ring bolted to the upper end of the shank, to which the chain is shackled. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A bottomless saggar placed on a base or on a saggar. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Ring If a lady or gentleman is willing to marry, but not engaged, a ring should be worn on the index finger of the left hand; if engaged, on the second finger; if married, on the third finger; but if either has no desire to marry, on the little finger. (Mme, C. de la Tour.) A ring worn on the forefinger indicates a haughty, bold, and overbearing spirit; on the long finger, prudence, dignity, and discretion; on the marriage finger, love and affection; on the little finger, a masterful spirit. Ring given in marriage, because it was anciently used as a seal, by which orders were signed (Gen. xxxviii. 18; Esther iii. 10-12); and the delivery of a ring was a sign that the giver endowed the person who received it with all the power he himself possessed (Gen. xli. 42). The woman who had the ring could issue commands as her husband, and was in every respect his representative. "In the Roman espousals, the man gave the woman a ring by way of pledge, and the woman put it on the third finger of her left hand, because it was believed that a nerve ran from that finger to the heart."- Macrobius: Sat. vii. 15. Ring The Ring and the Book. An idyllic epic by Robert Browning, founded on a cause célèbre of Italian history (1698). Guido Franceschini, a Florentine nobleman of shattered fortune, by the advice of his brother, Cardinal Paulo, marries Pompilia, an heiress, to repair his state. Now Pompilia was only a supposititious child of Pietro, supplied by Violante for the sake of preventing certain property from going to an heir not his own. When the bride discovered the motive of the bridegroom, she revealed to him this fact, and the first trial occurs to settle the said property. The count treats his bride so brutally that she quits his roof under the protection of Caponsacchi, a young priest, and takes refuge in Rome. Guido follows the fugitives and arrests them at an inn; a trial ensues, and a separation is permitted. Pompilia pleads for a divorce, but, pending the suit, gives birth to a son at the house of her putative parents. The count, hearing thereof, murders Pietro, Violante, and Pompilia; but, being taken red-handed, is executed. Ring (The). The space set apart for prize-fighters, horse-racing, etc. So called because the spectators stand round in a ring. Ring To make a ring. To combine in order to control the price of a given article. Thus, if the chief merchants of any article (say salt, flour, or sugar) combine, they can fix the selling price, and thus secure enormous profits. Ring It has the true ring- has intrinsic merit; bears the mark of real talent. A metaphor taken from the custom of judging genuine money by its "ring" or sound. Ring, a circlet, is the Anglo-Saxon hring; ring, to sound a bell, etc., is the verb hring-an. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Any metal or other ring intended for reception of, e. g. a rope or a hook. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Common structural part of most gas turbines. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | Dental appliance for correcting deformities of the teeth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A row of bricks in a roof, unbonded with the other rows. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A complete circle of tubbing plates around a circular shaft. Syn:tunnel lining b. Troughs placed in shafts to catch the falling water, and so arranged as to convey it to a certain point. c. See also:wedging crib d. S. Staff. A circular piece of wrought iron, about 8 in (20 cm) deep,placed on the top of a skip of coal to increase its capacity. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | RING. Money procured by begging: beggars so called it from its ringing when thrown to them. Also a circle formed for boxers, wrestlers, and cudgel-players, by a man styled Vinegar; who, with his hat before his eyes, goes round the circle, striking at rand. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | The metal ring of the basket. The net is hooked on to the rim. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius, from a fixed point, called the centre. Circles are simple closed curves, dividing the plane into an interior and exterior. Sometimes the word circle is used to mean the interior, with the circle itself called the circumference. More usually, the circumference means the length of the circle, and the interior of the circle is called a disc.
In an x-y coordinate system, the circle with centre (x0,y0) and radius r is the set of all points (x,y) such that
If the circle is centered at the origin (0,0), then this formula can be simplified to
- (x - x0)2 + (y - y0)2 = r2.
A circle centered at the origin with radius 1 is called a unit circle.
- x2 + y2 = r2.
All circles are similar; as a consequence, a circle's circumference and radius are proportional, as are its area and the square of its radius. The constants of proportionality are 2&pi and π, respectively. In other words:
The formula for the area of a circle can be derived from the formula for the circumference and the formula for the area of a triangle, as follows. Imagine a regular hexagon (six-sided figure) divided into equal triangles, with their apices at the center of the hexagon. The area of the hexagon may be found by the formula for triangle area by adding up the lengths of all the triangle bases (on the exterior of the hexagon), multiplying by the height of the triangles (distance from the middle of the base to the center) and dividing by two. This is an approximation of the area of a circle. Then imagine the same exercise with an octagon (eight-sided figure), and the approximation is a little closer to the area of a circle. As a regular polygon with more and more sides is divided into triangles and the area calculated from this, the area becomes closer and closer to the area of a circle. In the limit, the sum of the bases approaches the circumference 2πr, and the triangles' height approaches the radius r. Multiplying the two and dividing by 2, we get the area π r².
- Length of a circle's circumference = 2 × π × radius
- Area of a circle = π × (radius)2
A line cutting a circle in two places is called a secant, and a line touching the circle in one place is called a tangent. The tangent lines are necessarily perpendicular to the radii, segments connecting the centre to a point on the circle, whose length matches the definition given above. The segment of a secant bound by the circle is called a chord, and the longest chords are those that pass through the centre, called diameters and divided into two radii. The part of a circle cut off by a chord is called a circle segment.
If only (part of) a circle is known, then the circle's center can be constructed as follows: take two chords, construct perpendicular lines on their midpoints, and find the intersection point of those lines.
A part of a circle bound by two radii is called an arc, and the ratio between the length of an arc and the radius defines the angle between the two radii in radians.
Every triangle gives rise to several circles: its circumcircle containing all three vertices, its incircle lying inside the circle and touching all three sides, the three excircles lying outside the triangle and touching one side and the extensions of the other two, and its nine point circle which contains various important points of the triangle. Thales' theorem states that if the three vertices of a triangle lie on a given circle with one side of the triangle being a diameter of the circle, then the angle opposite to that side is a right angle.
Given any three points which do not lie on a line, there exists precisely one circle containing those points (namely the circumcircle of the triangle defined by the points).
A circle is a kind of conic section, with eccentricity zero. In affine geometry all circles and ellipses become (affinely) isomorphic, and in projective geometry the other conic sections join them. In topology all simple closed curves are homeomorphic to circles, and the word circle is often applied to them as a result. The 3-dimensional analog of the circle is the sphere.
Squaring the circle refers to the (impossible) task of constructing, for a given circle, a square of equal area with ruler and compass alone. Tarski's circle-squaring problem, by contrast, is the task of dividing a given circle into finitely many pieces and reassembling those pieces to obtain a square of equal area. Assuming the axiom of choice, this is indeed possible.
Three-dimensional shapes whose cross-sections in some planes are circles include spheres, spheroids, cylinders, and cones.
See also:
- Isoperimetric theorem
- The Circle
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Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers, but there are not many in this article.The One Ring, also known as the Ruling Ring, is a fictional artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe. It was created by the Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age in order to give him control over the other Rings of Power, which had been made by Celebrimbor and his people with Sauron's influence. Though it appeared to be made of simple gold, the Ring was virtually impervious to damage, and could only be destroyed by throwing it into the pit of the volcano in which it had originally been forged. Unlike the lesser Rings it bore no gem, but its identity could be determined by a simple (though little-known) test: when heated in a fire, it displayed in fiery letters a section of poetry from part of its lore:
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatulThese words, in the Black Speech of Mordor, are physically painful to any elf who hears them.
Roughly translated, they mean:
Note: some recent editions of The Fellowship of the Ring accidentally omit the first two clauses of this phrase from Chapter 2.
- One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
The entire poem reads:
Part of the nature of the Ring is that it inevitably corrupted its wearer, regardless of any intentions to the contrary. Whether this was specifically designed into the Ring's magic or is simply an artifact of its evil origins is unknown. (Sauron might be expected to endow his One Ring with such a property, but he probably never intended anyone besides himself to wear it.) For this reason the Wise, including Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel, refuse to wield it in their own defense, but instead determine that it must be destroyed.
- Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
- Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
- Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
- One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
- In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
- One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
- One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
- In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
After its original forging, the Ring was cut from Sauron's hand by Isildur, who lost it in the Great River Anduin after he was killed. The Ring remained hidden for centuries until it was discovered by a Hobbit (a Stoor, to be precise) named Déagol. Sméagol (pronounced smay-a-gol, not smee-gol as in Peter Jackson's film version) murdered his cousin Déagol, stole the ring, and was changed by the Ring's influence over many years into the unpleasant creature known as Gollum. As is told in The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins found the Ring while trying to escape from Gollum's underground lair. In fact, it might be more correct to say that the Ring found him by its power, for he was in a cave, and the Ring happened to slip onto his finger. Some decades later, following the counsel of his friend the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo gave the Ring to his nephew and adopted heir Frodo.
By this time Sauron had begun to regain his power, and the Dark Tower in Mordor had been rebuilt. In order to prevent the recapture of the Ring, Frodo and eight other companions set out from Rivendell for Mordor in an attempt to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.
Physically the Ring resembled a geometrically perfect circle of pure gold, this perfection and purity being part of its allure. It seems to have been able to expand and contract, in order to fit its wearer's finger or slip from it treacherously. In Peter Jackson's film of The Fellowship of the Ring, the Ring can be seen contracting to fit Isildur's finger.
The story of the quest to destroy the ring (and most of its history) is told in Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings.
Symbolism of the One Ring
Although Tolkien has always strongly held that his works should not be seen as a metaphor for anything, and especially not for the political goings-on at his time (for instance WW II or the Cold War), many people have felt an irresistible urge to see the One Ring as a symbol or metaphor for various things: Among them, atomic energy or the atomic bomb, which would both be anachronistic, seeing as the Ring was invented in the late 1930s, and the A-bomb did not become public knowledge until 1945. Other possible interpretations are that the ring represents the urge for power, which in Tolkien's view is always corrupting.
- See also : Middle-earth
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A planetary ring is a ring of dust and other small particles orbiting around a planet in a flat disc-shaped region. The most spectacular and famous planetary rings are those around Saturn, but all four of the solar system's gas giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) possess ring systems of their own.
The origin of planetary rings is not precisely known, but they are thought to be unstable and dissipate over the course of tens or hundreds of millions of years. As a result, modern ring systems must be of modern origin, possibly formed of debris from a moon that suffered a large impact or was disrupted by the parent planet's gravity when it passed within the Roche limit.
The composition of ring particles varies; they can be either silicate or icy dust. Larger rocks and boulders can also be present.
Sometimes rings will have "shepherd" moons, small moons that orbit near the outer edges of rings or within gaps in the rings. The gravity of shepherd moons serves to maintain a sharply defined edge to the ring; material that drifts closer to the shepherd moon's orbit is either deflected back into the body of the ring, ejected from the system, or accreted onto the moon itself.
Several of Jupiter's small innermost moons, namely Metis and Adrastea, are within Jupiter's ring system and are also within Jupiter's Roche limit. It is possible that these rings are composed of material that is being pulled off of these two bodies by Jupiter's tidal forces, possibly facilitated by impacts of ring material on their surfaces. A moon inside the Roche limit is held together only by its mechanical strength rather than by its gravity, and so loose material on their surfaces would simply "fall off" to join the rings.
Neptune's rings are very unusual in that they first appeared to be composed of incomplete arcs in Earth-based observations, but Voyager 2's images showed them to be complete rings with bright clumps. It is thought that the gravitational influence of the shepherd moon Galatea and possibly other as-yet undiscovered shepherd moons are responsible for this clumpiness.
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Different types of rings
- ring (mathematics)
- engagement ring
- web ring
- jewelry ring
- Boxing ring
- Anything resembling a circle
- A business ring or crime ring, also called a syndicate
Things entitled ring
- The Opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung is often referred to as "the Ring"
- Ring is the title of a 1998 Japanese cult horror film by Hideo Nakata
- The Ring is a horror motion picture that is a remake of a Japanese cult movie, Ring.
- Ring is also the title of a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
- The One Ring of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction
- The Ring magazine, a boxing magazine
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In mathematics, a ring is an algebraic structure in which addition and multiplication are defined and have similar properties to those familiar from the integers. The branch of mathematics where rings are studied is called ring theory.
History
See Ring theory
Definition and notation
A ring is an abelian group (R, +), together with a second binary operation * such that for all a, b and c in R,and such that there exists a multiplicative identity, or unity, that is, an element 1 so that for all a in R,
- a * (b*c) = (a*b) * c
- a * (b+c) = (a*b) + (a*c)
- (a+b) * c = (a*c) + (b*c)
(Many authors omit the requirement for a multiplicative identity, and call those rings which do have multiplicative identities unitary rings. Similarly, the requirement for the ring multiplication to be associative is sometimes dropped, and rings in which the associative law holds are called associative rings. In this encyclopedia, associativity and the existence of a multiplicative identity are taken to be part of the definition of a ring.)
- a*1 = 1*a = a
Note that the commutative law,
is not among the ring axioms listed above; rings that satisfy this law (such as the ring of integers) are called commutative rings. In general, rings are not commutative, though (see, for example, Matrix rings, described below).
- a*b=b*a for all a,b in R
The identity element with respect to + is called the zero element of the ring and written as 0. The symbol * is usually omitted from the notation, and the standard order of operation rules are used, so that e.g. a+bc is an abbreviation for a+(b*c). The additive inverse of the element x in a ring is written as -x.
In a ring we have 0=1 if and only if we are dealing with the trivial ring {0} with a single element. Unless specified, all rings in Wikipedia have different 1 and 0.
An element a in a ring is called a unit if it is invertible with respect to multiplication, i.e., if there is an element b in the ring such that
If that is the case, then b is uniquely determined by a and we write a-1 = b.
- ab = ba = 1
Examples
- The motivating example is the ring of integers with the two operations of addition and multiplication.
- The rational, real and complex numbers form rings, in fact they are even fieldss.
- If n is a positive integer, then the set Zn of integers modulo n forms a ring with n elements (see modular arithmetic).
- The set of all continuous real-valued functions defined on the interval [a, b] forms a ring (even an associative algebra). The operations are addition and multiplication of functions.
- The set of all polynomials over some common coefficient ring forms a ring.
- For any ring R and any natural number n, the set of all square n-by-n matrices with entries from R, forms a ring with matrix addition and matrix multiplication as operations. For n=1, this matrix ring is just (isomorphic to) R itself. For n>2, this matrix ring is an example of a noncommutative ring (unless R is the trivial ring).
- The trivial ring {0} has only one element which serves both as additive and multiplicative identity.
- If G is an abelian group, then the endomorphisms of G form a ring, the endomorphism ring End(G) of G. The operations in this ring are addition and composition of endomorphisms.
- If S is a set, then the power set of S becomes a ring if we define addition to be the symmetric difference of sets and multiplication to be intersection. This is an example of a Boolean ring.
- The set of formal power series R[[X1,...,Xn]] over a commutative ring R is a ring.
- The set of all functions in n complex variables holomorphic at the origin is a ring.
Simple theorems
From the axioms, one can immediately deduce that, for all elements a and b of a ring, we have
- 0a = a0 = 0
- (-1)a = -a
- (-a)b = a(-b) = -(ab)
- (ab)-1=b-1 a-1 if both a and b are invertible, and hence the set of all invertible elements in a ring is closed under multiplication * and forms a group, the group of units of the ring.
Constructing new rings from given ones
(r1,s1)+(r2,s2) = (r1+r2,s1+s2) and
- If a subset S of a ring (R,+,*) together with the operations + and * restricted on S is itself a ring, and the identity element 1 of R is contained in S, then S is called a subring of (R,+,*).
- The direct sum of two rings R and S is the cartesian product R×S together with the operations
(r1,s1)(r2,s2) = (r1r2,s1s2).
- Given a ring R and an ideal I of R, the factor ring R/I is the set of cosets of I together with the operations (a+I)+(b+I)=(a+b)+I and (a+I)(b+I)=ab+I.
Glossary and related topics
See Glossary of ring theory for more definitions in ring theory.
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Ringu (or The Ring) is a 1997 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata, later remade and released in the United States by director Gore Verbinski as The Ring. Both films have to do with a bizarre videotape which kills its viewer within a week of watching it.There were two sequels in Japan, The Ring 2 and The Ring 0. There was also a Korean remake titled The Ring Virus. The international success of the original launched a revival of horror filmmaking in Japan that resulted in such pictures as Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse and Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on.
The film was derived from a best-selling novel of the same name, by Koji Suzuki, often referred to as Japan's Stephen King.
External link
- http://ringworld.somrux.com/
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The Ring of the Nibelung or, in the original German, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is a series of four epic operas. Both the libretto and the music were written by Richard Wagner over the course of twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874.
The four operas in the Ring cycle are:
- Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
- Siegfried
- Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
Content
The Ring is a work of extraordinary scale and scope. Its most obvious quality, for a first-time listener, is its sheer length: a full performance of the cycle takes place over four nights at the opera, with a total playing time of about 15 hours, depending on the conductor's pacing. The first and shortest opera, Rheingold, typically clocks in at two and a half hours, while the last and longest, Götterdämmerung, can take up to six hours in performance.
The scale and scope of the story is epic. It follows the struggles of gods, heroes, and several mythical creatures, over the eponymous magic Ring that grants domination over the entire world. The drama and intrigue continues through three generations of protagonists, until the final cataclysm at the end of Götterdämmerung.
The music of the Ring is thick and richly textured, and grows in complexity as the cycle proceeds. The rate of musical notes per minute tends to be slow, to the point where the scores are somewhat thin volumes even compared to shorter operas. Wagner wrote for an orchestra of gargantuan proportions, forcing the singers to work hard to prevent their voices from being drowned out (a problem exacerbated by the large sizes of modern concert halls.)
Story
The plot revolves around a magic ring that grants the power to rule the world, forged by the Nibelung dwarf Alberich from gold stolen from the river Rhine. Several mythic figures struggle for possession of the Ring, including Wotan (Odin), the chief of the Gods. Wotan's scheme, spanning generations, to overcome his limitations, drives much of the action in the story. The hero Siegfried wins the Ring, as Wotan intended, but is eventually betrayed and slain. Finally, the Valkyrie Brünhilde, Siegfried's lover and Wotan's estranged daughter, returns the Ring to the Rhine. In the process, the Gods are destroyed.
For a detailed plot synopsis, see the articles for the individual operas.
Wagner created the story of the Ring by fusing elements from many German and Scandinavian myths. The Old Norse Eddas supplied much of the material for Das Rheingold, while Die Walküe was largely based on the Volsunga Saga. Siegfried contains elements from the Eddas, the Volsunga Saga, the Thidreks Saga, and even the Grimm brothers' fairy tale The Tale of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear. The final opera, Götterdämmerung, draws from the 12th century High German poem known as the Nibelungenlied, which appears to have been the original inspiration for the Ring, and for which the cycle was named.
In weaving these disparate sources into a coherent tale, Wagner injected many contemporary concepts. One of the principal themes in the Ring is the struggle of love, which is also associated with Nature and freedom, against power, which is associated with civilization and law. In the very first scene of the Ring, the scorned dwarf Alberich sets the plot in motion by placing a curse on love, an act that grants him to acquire the power to rule the world.
Since its inception, the Ring has been subjected to a plethora of interpretations. George Bernard Shaw, in The Perfect Wagnerite, argues for a view of the Ring as an essentially socialist critique of industrial society and its abuses.
Peter Kjaerulff, in The Ringbearers Diary, interprets the Ring as an attempt to expose a structure of ideas he refers to as The Cursed Ring, which he also links to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Plato's The Ring of Gyges.
Music
To be done. Talk about leitmotifs, and mention the Wagner tubas.
History of the Ring Cycle
Composition
In 1848, Wagner began writing a libretto entitled Siegfrieds Tod ("Siegfried's Death"). He was likely encouraged by a series of articles in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, inviting composers to write a "national opera" based on the Nibelungenlied, a 12th century High German poem which, since its rediscovery in 1755, had been hailed by the German Romantics as the "German national epic". Siegfrieds Tod dealt with the death of Siegfried, the central heroic figure of the Nibelungenlied. Wagner drew from several other sources as the work progressed, including the Eddas, the Thidreks Saga, and the Volsunga Saga.
By 1850, Wagner had completed a musical sketch for Siegfrieds Tod. He now felt that he needed a preliminary opera, Der junge Siegfried ("The Young Siegfried", later renamed to "Siegfried"), in order to explain the events in Siegfrieds Tod. The verse draft of Der junge Siegfried was completed in May 1851. By October, he had decided on a cycle of four operas, to be played over four nights: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Der Junge Siegfried and Siegfrieds Tod.
The text for all four operas was completed in December 1852, and privately published in February 1853. In November, Wagner began the composition draft of Das Rheingold. Unlike the verses, which were written from the end of the story to the beginning, the music would be composed from beginning to end. Composition proceeded until 1857, when the final score up to Act II of Siegfried was completed. Wagner then laid the work aside for twelve years, during which he wrote Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
By 1869, Wagner was living at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne, sponsored by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. At this point, he returned to Siegfried, and, remarkably, was able to pick up where he left off. In October, he completed the final opera, Götterdämmerung, as Siegfried's Tod had been renamed (since the focus of the tetralogy had shifted from Siegfried to Wotan.)
First Productions
On King Ludwig's insistence, and over Wagner's objections, "special previews" of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre were given at the Munich Court Theater, before the rest of the Ring. Thus, Das Rheingold premiered on September 22 1869, and Die Walküre on June 26 1870.
Wagner had long desired to have a special festival opera house, designed by himself, for the performance of the Ring. In 1871, he decided on a location in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth. In 1872, he moved to Bayreuth, and the foundation stone was laid. Wagner would spend the next two years attempting to raise capital for the construction, with scant success; King Ludwig finally rescued the project in 1874 by donating the needed funds. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opened in 1876 with the first complete performance of the Ring, which took place from August 13 to August 17.
Recordings of the Complete Cycle
The complete Ring has been performed many times, but relatively few full recordings exist, probably due to commercial considerations. The four operas together take about 14 hours, which makes for a lot of records, tapes, or CDs.
Here are a few well-known and widely appreciated recordings of the complete Ring cycle:
- Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Opera, 1958-1965. This is the first studio recording of the complete Ring, and is enduringly popular. It is in stereo sound. [Decca/Polygram records]
- Recordings from Bayreuth performances:
- Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1956. Mono sound. [Music & Arts]
- Karl Böhm conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1967. Stereo sound.[Philips]
- Pierre Boulez conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1980-1981. Stereo sound. [Philips]
- Reginald Goodall conducting the English National Opera Orchestra, 1975. Stereo sound. Sung in English, using Andrew Porter's translation. [Chandos]
- Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the La Scala Opera Orchestra, 1950. Mono sound. [Opera D'Oro]
- Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1967. Stereo sound. [Deutsche Grammophon/Polygram]
- James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, 1990. Stereo sound.[Deutsche Grammophon]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "The Ring of the Nibelung."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
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| RI | English | Ring Indicator | Computing |
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Synonyms: RingSynonyms: anchor ring (n), annulus (n), anulus (n), band (n), closed chain (n), doughnut (n), gang (n), halo (n), hoop (n), mob (n), pack (n), ringing (n), tintinnabulation (n), call (v), call up (v), circle (v), echo (v), encircle (v), environ (v), knell (v), peal (v), phone (v), resound (v), reverberate (v), round (v), surround (v), telephone (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: open chain (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arena | Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus. |
Circularity | Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo. |
Experiment | Crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring; litmus paper, curcuma paper, turmeric paper; test tube; analytical instruments. |
Jewelry | Necklace, bracelet, anklet; earring; locket, pendant, charm bracelet; ring, pinky ring; carcanet; chain, chatelaine; broach, pin, lapel pin, torque. |
Party | Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall. |
Pendency | Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Two hobbits, and the Ring of Power within my grasp (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) It's a glow-in-the-dark compass ring. So you don't get lost (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg) Well, I didn't ask to see his Mafia decoder ring, but yes. (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) Connecticut is the fifth ring of hell (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.) Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of spears (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf) | |
Lyrics | And It Makes A Fiery Ring (Ring Of Fire; performing artist: JOHNNY CASH; writing credit: June Carter and Merle Kilgore) She threw back the ring (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC) Now I'm back in the ring to take another swing (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) There's another diamond ring (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith) This ring will help me yet as will you knight in shining armor (Precious Illusions; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Clever | Why is a boxing ring square? (references; author: unknown) Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? (references; author: unknown) Sign at the Pavlov Institute: Knock. Please don't ring bell. (references; author: unknown) The difference between the Pope and your boss. The Pope only expects you to kiss his ring. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | King of the Ring (2002) Los Leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra (1974) Polizeiruf 110 - Der Ring mit dem blauen Saphir (1973) Sex Mood Ring (1973) Una Rosa sobre el ring (1972) | |
Song Titles | This Diamond Ring (performing artist: Gary Lewis and The Playboys) RING OF FIRE (performing artist: JOHNNY CASH) | |
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 | An immature trophozoite of P. vivax is shown at the top of the slide in its characteristic ring shape, while the mature trophozoites contain large ameboid cytoplasms with large chromatin and fine yellowish brown pigment. Credit: CDC. |  | As the parasite increases in size, the ring morphology disappears, and becomes what is referred to as a mature trophozoite. The trophozoite of P. vivax is ameboid in shape, and the enlarged infected erythrocyte contains numerous Schuffner’s dots. Credit: CDC. |
 | Ring Around a Galaxy. Credit: NASA. |  | The Ring Nebula. Credit: NASA. |
 | This Hubble telescope snapshot reveals clusters of infant stars that formed in a ring around ... Credit: NASA. |  | This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane. ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The old ring wall at Station Tushar Elevation 12132 feet Reconnaissance party of William Musseter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Retrieving a buoy on the ALBATROSS IV Buoy used for warm core ring study. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Turtle excluder device (TED) manufactured by Saunders Marine Machine Shop. The oval metal ring and bars deflect the turtles. The cut in the netting is where the trap door will be placed. The bars force a turtle to the trap door which will open allowing the turtle to go free. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Figure 22. The Thor ring-trawl net used in deep water. Devised by Johannes Schmidt in 1905 and used for carrying out studies on board the THOR. This net was used to capture fish in very deep water. It was first tested in waters between 1040 and 1090 meters depth off SW Ireland. The ring was originally made in one piece but George Hansen designed it in two to allow it to fold up. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Silver Ring" by Conor Tapp Commentary: "A silver ring." | "Ring Toss" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "The bottles at Valleyfair's Ring Toss game." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Loud bell ring. | | Bell ring. |
| Digital phone ring. | | Modern phone ring. |
| Synthesized metal bell chord left to ring and diminuendo. | ||
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring ... Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill ... |
Lucretius | The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone. |
Robert Burton | [Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin [St. Augustine], still going round as in a ring. |
Theodore Roosevelt | My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff. |
Thomas Hood | My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. |
Tom Waits | I am the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring. |
Walter Bagehot | Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | From every mountainside, let freedom ring. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1898) |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Each person and each thing had its special ring. |
The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Vouchsafe to wear this ring. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He wore a massive gold wedding ring on the third finger of his left hand |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet, like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | One has peeled a willow wand, woven it into a ring, and dropped it on my table |
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Health | The microkeratome and the suction ring are then removed. (references) | |
Colloid, signet ring, or poorly differentiated histology. (references) | ||
Padma MV, Behari M, Misra NK, Ahuja GK. Albendazole in single CT ring lesions in epilepsy. (references) | ||
Business | In 1997, Dana acquired the piston ring and cylinder liner operation of SPX Corporation (SPD), the assets of Clark-Hurth Components (CH) from Ingersoll-Rand, a 75 percent stake in Wix Filtron. (references) | |
Children | Greece | Police believe that this was the largest child exploitation ring ever uncovered in the country. (references) |
Brazil | At year's end, trials had not taken place in the 1999 case of a child prostitution ring in Maranhao that involved police, judicial authorities, and elected officials. (references) | |
Economic History | Lebanon | Works include feeder roads associated with the Beirut Ring Road and the Northern and Southern Suburbs roads, and the Beirut-Damascus road. (references) |
Human Rights | Hungary | The White Ring Nonprofit Association, which is a member of the European Victim Protection Forum, supports the work of the Victim Protection Offices. (references) |
Albania | The AHRG also noted that in February the police had improperly searched the house of Alberia Hadergjonaj while in pursuit of her husband, whom they suspected of being involved in a drug ring. (references) | |
Brazil | An investigation initiated by the former president of the supreme court of Acre state and carried out in November 1998 under the auspices of the CDDPH amassed evidence that former Acre military police chief and former state and federal deputy Hildebrando Pascoal headed a crime ring and death squad in that Amazonian state linked to at least 30 murder and torture cases previously suspended by state authorities for lack of evidence. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Off Ring Road, near Sankara Circle. (references) |
Ghana | Off 1st Street in Osu, two blocks in from Ring Road. (references) | |
Ghana | Located across from SSNIT Guest House, just off Ring Road. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uruguay | In May the authorities discovered a small child-labor ring. (references) |
Belgium | In 1996 the authorities uncovered a suspected pedophile/child pornography and trafficking ring. (references) | |
India | However, upon arrival in the U.S., the girls reportedly were put to work in a prostitution ring. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andy Rooney | Well, there's something strange about that story, though. As a reporter, you asked some good questions. But there are a lot more questions to be asked. It doesn't ring true. |
Dennis Miller | I think there is something wrong when you hear a cell phone ring in public and thirty people start patting themselves down like they've just burst into flame. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Excellence is what makes frcedom ring. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Ring" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.15% of the time. "Ring" is used about 6,192 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 58.15% | 3,601 | 2,700 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 30.39% | 1,882 | 4,541 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.02% | 682 | 9,703 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.42% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,192 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ring" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ring | Last name | 6,000 | 2,137 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | Nord-West Ring Schuh-Einkausgenossenschaft eG | Japan | Nippon Piston Ring Co Ltd |
| Netherlands | Ring!Rosa Products N.V. | United Kingdom | Ring PLC |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ring": a ring in the wall ♦ Abdominal ring ♦ absent ring ♦ adjusting ring ♦ anchor ring ♦ annual growth ring ♦ annual ring ♦ annular ring shanked nail ♦ automatic ring down ♦ azimuth ring ♦ Base ring ♦ beaded ring ♦ Bearing ring ♦ Benzene ring ♦ Bishop's ring ♦ boxing ring ♦ Cambridge digital communication ring ♦ Cambridge ring ♦ centering ring ♦ centring ring ♦ choroidal ring ♦ ciliary ring ♦ Circular or Ring ♦ clamp ring ♦ class Oriented Ring Associated Language ♦ coffee ring ♦ common tendinous ring ♦ conjunctival ring ♦ corner of a ring ♦ Cornice ring ♦ Cramp ring ♦ curtain ring ♦ diamond ring ♦ discontinuous ring ♦ distributing jumper ring ♦ distributing ring ♦ does it ring a bell? ♦ ear ring ♦ engagement ring ♦ engagements ring ♦ Eyelet ring ♦ fairy ring ♦ Fairy ring champignon ♦ focus ring ♦ Fog ring ♦ form a ring ♦ friction ring ♦ gas ring ♦ Gemel ring ♦ Gimbal ring ♦ Gin ring ♦ give a ring ♦ give smb. a ring ♦ gold ring ♦ growth ring ♦ Heel ring ♦ hybrid ring ♦ i hear a ring at the door ♦ in a ring fence ♦ incomplete ring ♦ Inguinal ring ♦ innermost ring ♦ iridic major ring ♦ iridic minor ring ♦ isolating ring ♦ jar ring note ♦ joint ring ♦ jumper ring ♦ Junk ring ♦ key ring ♦ key ring pendant ♦ life ring ♦ lightning ring ♦ Live ring ♦ locally absent ring ♦ Low Energy Antiproton Ring ♦ Lower Esophageal Ring ♦ make smth. ring ♦ make the welkin ring ♦ manacle ring ♦ metal ring ♦ missing ring ♦ mood ring ♦ mourning ring ♦ napkin ring ♦ NOL ring ♦ nose ring ♦ o ring ♦ oil thrower ring ♦ orifice ring ♦ outermost ring ♦ packing ring ♦ parhelic ring ♦ partial ring ♦ Pawl ring ♦ Pharmaceutical Documentation Ring ♦ pinion and ring gear ♦ piston ring ♦ pixy ring ♦ porphin ring ♦ price ring. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ring": ring-a-ding-ding, ring-and-dot, ring-a-ring-a-noses, Ring-a-ring-o'-roses, ring-a-rosy, ring-around-a-rosy, ring-around-rosy, ring-a-round-the-rosey, ring-around-the-rosy, ring-attached, ring-barking, ring-bedecked, ring-billed blackhead, ring-binder, ring-biscuit, ring-bound, ring-closure, ring-crypt, ring-dance, ring-ditches, ring-doughnut, ring-dove, ring-doves, ring-dropper, ring-encrusted, ring-fence, ring-fenced, ring-fencing, ring-file, ring-folders, ring-follower, ring-fort, ring-girdling, ring-grips, ring-handle, ring-handles, ring-if, ring-laden, ring-leader, ring-leaders, ring-like, ring-mail, ring-makers, ring-master, ring-monitoring, ring-mountings, ring-neck, Ring-necked, ring-necked blackhead, Ring-necked duck, ring-necked parakeet, ring-necked pheasant, ring-necked plover, ring-necked snake, ring-net, ring-of-two, Ring-on-sea, Ring-o-roses, ring-ousel, ring-piece, ring-pull, ring-pull can, ring-pulls, ring-ridden, ring-ring, ring-road, ring-roarrrd, ring-rust, ring-rustiness, ring-rusty, ring-scarred, ring-seal, ring-segments, ring-shape, ring-shaped, ring-shirr, ring-side, ring-snake, ring-spanner, ring-species, ring-sports, ring-stained, ring-stalked fungus, Ring-streaked, ring-structured, ring-studded, ring-tail, Ring-tailed, ring-tailed cat, ring-tailed eagle, ring-tailed lemur, ring-tails, ring-theoretic, ring-toothed, ring-top, ring-tree, ring-wall, ring-work, ring-worm. | |
Ending with "ring": butt-ring, cup-and-ring, eye-ring, gas-ring, inner-ring, key-ring, O'-ring, show-ring, solder-ring, Token-ring, tree-ring, two-ring, wedding-ring. | |
Containing "ring": broken-ring network, fairy-ring mushroom, three-ring circus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lord of the ring | 24,204 | cell phone ring | 1,150 |
engagement ring | 13,084 | navel ring | 1,004 |
wedding ring | 12,124 | man ring | 944 |
free ring tone | 8,750 | free cell phone ring tone | 930 |
ring worm | 5,544 | ring bearer | 924 |
ring | 5,409 | king lord return ring | 913 |
diamond ring | 5,042 | lord of the ring game | 897 |
the ring | 4,510 | lord of the ring poster | 873 |
belly button ring | 3,086 | web ring | 868 |
free nokia ring tone | 2,649 | lord of the ring action figure | 840 |
lord of the ring the two tower | 2,095 | titanium ring | 806 |
lord of the ring movie | 1,909 | ring movie | 793 |
diamond engagement ring | 1,876 | lord of the ring toy | 771 |
cell phone ring tone | 1,857 | mood ring | 766 |
belly ring | 1,853 | lord of the ring dvd | 739 |
promise ring | 1,807 | nipple ring | 724 |
tongue ring | 1,614 | free cell phone ring | 678 |
class ring | 1,556 | lord of the ring picture | 669 |
free motorola ring tone | 1,302 | platinum engagement ring | 666 |
toe ring | 1,300 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ring, bel (bell, cause, give, give a ring, ring the bell), beier (Bavarian, peal), aanbel (give, give a ring, ring the bell). (various references) | |
Albanian | rreth njerëzish, rreth (around, brim, by, circa, circle, circlet, circuit, compass, concerning, coterie, disc, district, gabion, girth, gyre, periphery, range, region, rim, rondure, round, somewhere, union), rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, round up, span, surround, wreathe), rrjet (chain, circuit, network, plexus, system), ring, arenë (arena, scaffold, theater, theatre), buzë (bank, border, brim, curb, edge, hem, lip, margin, rim, selvage, Selvedge, skirt, verge, welt), fashollastikë (piston ring), fut në rreth, hallkë (cog, hanger, link, member, shackle, thole), klikë (clique), kontur (contour, line, outline, periphery), kumbon (resound, reverberate), qarkoj (compass, encompass, rim), tingull (blast, noise, note, sound, twang), vë unzën, vëth (ear ring, eardrop), unazë pistoni (piston ring), unazë (Bushing, coil, seal ring), tingëllim (bell, carillon, chime, clang, clicking, orotundity, ringing, sonority, sound, sounding, tang, tinkle, tinkling, tolling, tone, twang), tingëllimë (bell, carillon, chime, clang, clicking, orotundity, ringing, sonority, sound, sounding, tang, tinkle, tinkling, tolling, tone, twang), tingëllon (chime, ding, peal, plink, resound, sound, sounds, tingle, tinkle, toll), marrje në telefon (ring up). (various references) | |
Arabic | تماجن, دائرة (area, circle, compass, department, orb, range, round, section, service, set), دارة القمر, رن (chime, chink, clang, peal, ping, plunk, resonate, resound, sound, strike, tinkle, toll, twang), رن الجرس, رنين (chink, clang, jingle, peal, ping, resonance, resonant, ringing, sound, tinkle, tone, twang), أحاط (begird, border on, bound, circuit, edge, encircle, frame, girdle, hill, rim, sphere), خاتم, طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, clip, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, hoop, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, round, strap, surround, take off, zone), طوق بحلقة, طن (boom, buzz, midriff, whine, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), طنين (bum, buzz, humming, ringing, rumble, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), بدا (appear, imitate, look alike, seem, sound), عصابة (bandage, gang, herd, pack, robbers, set, shower, swathe, tape), ملاكمة (boxing, fight, spar), حقل تنافسي سياسي, حلبة (arena, race track, running track), حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, rise, shaving, soar, take off, throat, tower, trim), حلقة (circle, coterie, fake, installment, instalment), وضع حدا (break, extinguish, put a stop to, snuff out, split up, stop, suppress, terminate), قرع (bang, banging, beat, beating, chide, drum, hitting, knock, knocking, rap, rapping, sound, striking, tap, toll), قرع الأجراس (change, chime), قذف بحلقة, نبرة (accent, emphasis, strain, stress, tone), نال شهرة واسعة, هاتف (blower, phone, telephone), هز (agitate, bob, concuss, convulse, jolt, rattle, rock, shake, shock, stir, swing, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), عصبة (band, bevy, cabal, clique, crew, faction, league, nervousness, platoon, string). (various references) | |
Basque | eraztun. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бръмча (boom, burr, buzz, drone, drum, ha, hum, ping, purr, sing, whir, whirr), пищя (pipe, scream, shriek, shrill, skirl, squall, yowl), звън (bell, jingle, plunk, ting), звучене (sound), звук (noise, note, phone, sound, tune), затворена верига (mesh), залагане на конни надбягвания, ехтя (clang, echo, peal), звънливост, буча (hum, sing, thunder), звънтеж (jingle), банда (band, bandwagon, crew, gang, mob, pack, push, set), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), пръстен (circle, circlet, earthen, hoop, rim, terrene, washer), правя кръг около, повикване по телефона (buzz, call on the phone), позвънявам (give a ring, ring up), политическа надпревара, ефект (effect, effectiveness, glamor, glamour, punch, result), картел (cartel, combine, kartell), ядро (cell, core, inwardness, kernel, nucleus), режа на кръгчета, ринг (circle, prize ring), халка (circlet, clip, hanger, hoop, loop, wedding ring), циркова арена, фланец (flange), кънтя (echo, resound, reverberate), звън на църковни камбани, кръжа нагоре, слагам пръстен на, клика (cabal, clan, clique, faction, set, tribe), годишен пръстен, впечатление (effect, feeling, idea, impress, impression), обръч (band, binding, clip, collar, hoop), образувам кръг, обкръжавам (beleaguer, beset, circle, embosom, encircle, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, hoop, invest, rabble, rim, surround), звънтя (chink, clang, clink, ding, jingle, ping, plunk, tang, tinkle), кръг (circle, cycle, disc, disk, orb, range, round, set, sphere). (various references) | |
Catalan | anell. (various references) | |
Chamorro | aniyu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 觼 (buckle, clasp), 籃圈 (hoop), 環 (bracelet, loop, to loop, to surround), 圆环 (rings), 圈子 (circle), 圈 (a fold, chest, circle, enclose, Hungary, loop, pen, thorax, to confine), 戒指 , 戒子 . (various references) | |
Czech | zvuèet (resonate, resound, sound), zvonit (chime, clang, go off, jingle, tang, tingle, tinkle), zavolat (call, call out, call up, hail, ring up, send for, summon), vydávat zvonivý tón, prsten, obruba (border, frame, hem, list, purl, rim, skirt, surround), obklopit (beset, cluster round, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, hem in, surround), navléknout (thread), manéž, kruh (circle, round, sphere, wheel), kroužkovat, kroužit (circle, cycle, gyrate, wheel, whirl, whirl round in circles), kroužek (band, circle, circlet, club, curl, ringer, round), klika (clique, crank, door handle, handle, in-group), hlaholit. (various references) | |
Danish | ringe (give a ring, jingle, ring the bell, tinkle). (various references) | |
Dutch | ring (boat, collar, crank pin bearing roll nock, ferrule, floater, gaff, gathering ring, neck, neck journal, pot ring, spigot, trunnion, vault cap, watch bow), wal (bank, border, edge, platform, quay, rampart, shore, wharf), beugel (trolley), bellen (call, give a ring, ring the bell). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ringo, tintigi, sonorigi, sonori (peal). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ringur (bad, miserable, nasty, poor), ringja (peal, telephone), glinta (peal), gella (echo, peal). (various references) | |
Farsi | زنگ زدن (Oxidize, Ringer, Rust, Smut, Stain), انگشتر (Hoop), جسم حلقوی , صدای زنگ تلفن , صحنه ورزش , طوقه (Torque), طنین (Noise, Resonance, Sonance), احاطه کردن (Beset, Box, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Orb, Pale, Skirt, Sphere), زنگ اخبار (Buzzer), میدان (Aim, Ground, Place, Plaza, Purview, Scope, Square), حلقه (Chain, Curl, Earring, Gird, Girdle, Hank, Hoop, Loop, Ran, Segment, Vortex, Whorl, Wicket, Wisp), حلقه زدن (Encircle, Encompass, Wind), گردامدن (Agglomerate, Assemble, Constringe, Convene, Flock, Gather, Herd, Rally), گود (Arena, Deep, Dished), چرخ خوردن , ناقوس (Bell, Gong), محفل (Circle, Clique), عرصه (Arena, Compound). (various references) | |
Finnish | rengas (link, tire, tyre), soida (chime, clang, peal, resound, sound, toll). (various references) | |
French | anneau (jacquard ring, rim), tinter, bague, sonner (give a ring, ring the bell), rondelle, ring (prize ring), couronne (border rim), cercle. (various references) | |
Frisian | skilje (peal), oanskilje (give a ring, ring the bell). (various references) | |
German | Ring (annulus, band, circle, circlet, cycle, ferrule, group, hoop, lifebelt, lifebuoy, link, quoit, round, rubber, seal, torus), tönen (boast, clang, clink, peal, resound, rinse, sing out, sound, tinge, tint, tintinnabulation, to clink, to sound), läuten (bell, chime, clang, go off, peal, ringing, sound, to chime, to ring, toll), klingeln (bells, clincher, give a ring, go, jingle, ping, pinging, pink, ring the bell, ringing, ting, tinkle, to jingle, to ring, to ring the bell), schellen (bells, diamonds), schallen (blare out, clang, echo, peal, resound, ring out, sound), Kranz (annulus, belt, chaplet, circle, crown, cycle, Garland, hoop, lip, rim, wreath), klingen (clang, clincher, clink, peal, ringing, sound, tingle, tinkle, tinkling, tintinnabulation, to clink, to sound, to twang, twang). (various references) | |
Greek | παλαίστρα (arena, lists, palestra), δακτυλίδι, δαχτυλίδι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעגל (circle, circuit, rolling pin), להקיף (circuit, embrace, encircle, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, pale, round, span, surround, take in), להצטלצל, לטלפן (call, phone, ring up, telephone), לצלצל (chime, impoverish, whir), עזקה (clasp), עזק (bandage, clasp), חוח (cleft, fissure, hook), חשוק (beloved, desired, hoop, rim), טבעת (seal), צליל (note, sound, strain, tone), צלצול (ringing, tang, tinkling, toll). (various references) | |
Hungarian | karika (circle, collar, hoop, keeper, loop, round, roundel), aréna (amphitheatre, arena, bull-ring). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hringur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | komplotan (conspiracy), cincin (faucets), berdering (chirp, clink, ringing), berdenging (buzz). (various references) | |
Irish | fáinne. (various references) | |
Italian | anello (circle, link, loop), corona (chaplet, circle, corona, crown, head, rim, rosary, wreath), circolo (circle, circlet, club, coterie, social club, society, torus), cerchio (circle, hoop, orb, rim, round). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 輪 (circle, hoop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リング , かさ (bulk, halo, hat, parasol, quantity, shade, umbrella, volume), ゆびわ, わ (circle, counter for birds, counter for bundles, counter for rabbits, harmony, hoop, link, loop, peace, sum, wheel), えんじん (ape man, battle scene, circle, dust, eunuch, misanthropy, smokestack smoke). (various references) | |
Korean | 고리 (Collar, rings). (various references) | |
Lombard | anell. (various references) | |
Manx | scoodyn (grime, scum, tidemark, tidemark on neck), paal (circle, circle fold, coop, enclave, enclosure, fold, pale, pavilion, pen), kiarkyl (circle, coterie, O, rim), glingal (jingle, jingling, ringing), cur stroineen er, cur fainey er, croa (aperture, compound, coop, corral, enclave, enclosure, eyehole, fold, notch, pen), craa (bestrew, brandish, dither, dodder, flicker, flutter, jog, jolt, judder, quaver, rustle, shake, shiver, shock, sprinkle, toss, toss of head, tremble, vibrate, warble, wave, wave of hand), clinckeragh, clinckal (ring out, ringing, tinkle), clinc, bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, cram, crunch, crush, grind, pounding, press, pressure, push, squash), bingys (intonation, music, shrillness, sounding, yielding music). (various references) | |
Mohawk | ennihsnonhsawi'. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ring. (various references) | |
Occitan | anèl. (various references) | |
Papiamen | renchi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anel (annulus, band, circle, circlet, curl, link), aro (circlet, flange, hoop, rim, shackle, tyre), argola (circlet, cufflink, hoop, link). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãsuna de (echo with), roatã (circle, rack, spinning wheel, wheel), ring, clocoti (boil, bubble, churn, Eddy, resound, roar, seethe, surge, whirl), clinchet (chink, clicking noise, clink), clic (click), chema (ask, call, call down, call up, challenge, chuckle, conjure, convene, convoke, entreat, hail, muster, page, shout, signify, summon), cercel (ear ring, eardrop), cerc (band, circle, circles, class, compass, coterie, district, extent, hoop, range, rim, round, set, sphere, zone), ceatã (band, cohort, drove, flock, gang, group, knot, order, pack, rout, tribe, troop), clopoţi (peal), brãţarã (armlet, bangle, bracelet, bracket, collar, loop), dangãt de clopot (chime, ding-dong, toll), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), bandã (band, binder, bunch, clique, cushion, gang, pack, parcel, ribbon, rout, set, strap, strip, tape, troop), bãlãngãni, arenã (amphitheatre, arena, circle, circus, field, lists, pit, stage), anunţa (advertise, announce, annunciate, bid, bill, blow around, cry, forebode, foretell, give notice, give out, Herald, import, inform, instruct, notify, promise, publish, report, usher in), îngrãdi (bar, close, enclose, girdle, hedge, like, pale, protect, rail in, surround, swaddle, wall), cearcãn, ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, mesh, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, scan, sight, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), vesti (announce, Herald, proclaim, publish, sound), verigã (link), timbru al vocii (tone), târâi (chirr, reel, trickle), suna (beat, blare, call, call up, chime, go, hoot, jingle, resound, sound, strike, tinkle, toot), segment (section, segment), coroanã (chaplet, circle, corona, coronal, coronet, crown, Garland, pause, wreath), pune o verigã la, ţiui (buzz, tingle, whizz), inelar (annular, circular), inel (circle, circlet, curl, ferrule, hoop, link, Lovelock, ringlet), forma un cerc, face sã sune (jingle), vibra de, dãngãni (chime), pune un inel la. (various references) | |
Romansch | anè. (various references) | |
Romany | angoostsì. (various references) | |
Russian | обруч (collar, hoop), бокс (box, boxcalf, pugilism, spar), арена (arena, hippodrome), звон (chink, clank, clink, ding-dong, jingle, ping, plunk, tang), звонить (call 1, call up, callup, chime, ding-dong, make a phone call, phoned, pull a bell, rang, ring the bell, ring up, sound, tinkle, tolls), звонить;кольцо; кольцевой, надевать кольцо, подбор колоколов (carillon, peal), оправа (chase, mounting, setting), ринг (prise ring, prize ring), оглашаться (resound), клика (clique, faction, junta, junto), кольцо (annuli, annulus, cattle-leader, circle, circlet, coil, collar, curl, hoop, race, wreath), кружить (whirl, whirled), круг (circle, compass, cycle, disc, disk, gyre, lunge, period, rondure, tour), цирковая арена, намек (allusion, allusiveness, cue, gentle reminder, half word, half-word, hint, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, overtone, pointing, soupcon, suggestion, tip, tip off, tipoff). (various references) | |
Scottish | seinn (play upon an instrument, playing upon an instrument, ringing, sing, singing), cearcall (a hoop, circle, hoop), ailbheag. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ring (prize ring), zvoniti (chime, ding, knell, tinkle), zazvoniti, prsten, opkoliti (begird, beleaguer, besiege, hoop, invest, surround), krug (circle, compass, gyre, lap, round), kolut (band, collet), god, brnjica (muzzle, nose ring, twitch), alka. (various references) | |
Sicilian | aneddu. (various references) | |
Spanish | anillo (circlet), llamar (appeal to, beckon, buzz, call, call back, call in, call off, call over, call up, call upon, draw, engage, get, get on to, give a ring, have in, hit, hollo, holloa, invoke, knock, knock up, name, recall, ring the bell, ring up, strike, summon, term, to call, touch off, whip in), corro (huddle), aro (arum, earring, hoop), anilla (kink). (various references) | |
Sranan | linga. (various references) | |
Swedish | ring (circle, coil, collar, collet, halo, tyre, wheel, wreath), påringning (buzz), klinga (blade, chime, chink, clang, clink, jingle, sawblade, sound, tinkle), klang (clang, resonance, sound, tone, twang). (various references) | |
Tagalog | singsíng. (various references) | |
Thai | ใส่ห่วง, แหวน, เนื้อที่ที่เป็นวงกลม, เสียงกระดิ่ง, โทรศัพท์ (dog and bone, telephone), ส่งเสียงดังกังวาน, สั่นกระดิ่ง, ทำเสียงสะท้อน, กลุ่มคณะ, วงแหวน, ล้อม (engirdle), ห่วง (hoop, loop). (various references) | |
Turkish | ring (circle, prize ring), çembere almak (encircle, hoop, pocket), etki (action, bearing, clout, drag, drift, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, force, forcefulness, hold, impact, impress, impression, imprint, incidence, influence, interest, jolt, leaven, penetration, point, potency, pull, purchase, reflection, reflexion, sound, stamp, sway, virtue, weight), daire içine almak (circumscribe), bahis oynanan yer, ayla (aureola, aureole, corona, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus), şıngırdamak (clink, jingle), çıkar grubu, çete (band, bunch, gang, mob, push), hale (aureola, aureole, corona, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus), çember (bail, basket, circle, circuit, circumference, girth, hoop, round), çan sesi (bells, dingdong, ding-dong, gong, jingle, ringing, ting, tintinnabulation, toll), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), çalma sesi, çınlatmak (clink, ding, ting, tinkle), çevrelemek (begird, cincture, circle, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, inclose, orb, ring in, surround, swathe, twine about, twine around, wreathe), gösteri alanı, zil sesi (ding-dong), halka (annulus, bangle, circle, coil, collet, hoop, link, quoits, round, torus, whorl, wreath), halka biçiminde doğramak, halka geçirmek, izlenim (effect, feeling, impression, imprint, odor, odour, stamp), kartel (cartel, combination, combine, pool, syndicate, water barrel), klik (caucus, clique, junto, splinter group), kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, shut in, surround, zone), pist (airfield, cinder path, course, floor, landing field, path, runway, scat, shoo, strip, tarmac, track), telefon sesi, tröst (pool, trust), yüzük (hoop), yüzük takmak, etrafını sarmak (beleaguer, environ, ring in, round, surround, twine about, twine around). (various references) | |
Turkmen | zarсyldamak, юyссyrdy (jingle, peal), яьzьk, jyссyrdamak, halka (environment, loop). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ринг, кільце (circle, circus, cirque, coil, grummet, hoop, orb, ringlet), круг (circle, circus, cirque, gyre), коло (anear, anigh, aside, by, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, near, on, orb, round, verge, wheel), оточувати (bank, beleaguer, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, mob, palisade, skirt, surround, zone), обкреслювати коло, оправа (casing, cover, mandrel, rim, setting), надівати кільце, дзвонити (chime, ding-dong, peal, ring up, tang, telephone), дзвеніти (chime, chink, clang, clangor, clank, clink, ding, jingle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vượt xa ai, tiếng rung ngân, sự rung chuông tiếng chuông điện thoại, sự gọi dây nói tiếng rung, làm nhanh hơn ai gấp trăm lần, hơn hẳn (away, excellent), bộ chuông, bọn (band, boodle, clique, confraternity, covey, number, parcel, tribe, troop), bỏ xa ai. (various references) | |
Welsh | toncio (tinkle), tonc (clash, tinkle), modrwyo, modrwy, dolen (bot, handle, link, loop), diasbedain (resound), canu (chant, crow, play, sing), cant (circle, hundred, one hundred, rim, tyre), amgarn (circle, ferrule). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. har, gur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absaniae, anani, anania, ananiae, ananiaeque, ananiam, ananias, aneni, anes, ani, anos, anulus, anus, armilla, armillam, armillas, circuli, circulis, circulo, circulos, circulum, circulus, circumcidamini, circumcidatur, circumcide, circumcidebant, circumcidenti, circumcidere, circumciderunt, circumcidet, circumcidetis, circumcidetur, circumcidi, circumcidimini, circumcidit, circumcidite, circumciditis, circumciduntur, circumcisa, circumcisi, circumcisis, circumcisum, circumcisus, circus, corona, coronae, coronam, coronas, coronis, gyro, gyrum, gyrus, orbis, tinniant, tinnient, torquem, torques. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | beag, hring, trendel. (various references) |
| Irish | 1000-Modern | fainne. (various references) |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | boug-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Wsper enwtion en rini uoV outwV gunaiki kakofroni kalloV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Circulus aureus in naribus suis mulier pulchra et fatua |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A goldene cercle in the nosethirlis of a souwe, a fair womman and a fool. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman who is without discretion. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maingon sa usa ka singsing nga bulawan diha sa simod sa baboy, Mao man ang usa ka maanyag nga babaye nga walay kabuot. |
| Croatian | Zlatan je kolut na rilu svinjskom: žena lijepa, a bez razuma. |
| Danish | Som Guldring i Svinetryne er fager Kvinde, der ikke kan skønne. |
| Dutch | Een schone vrouw, die van rede afwijkt, is een gouden bagge in een varkenssnuit. |
| Finnish | Kultarengas sian kärsässä on kaunis nainen, älyä vailla. |
| French | Un anneau d`or au nez d`un pourceau, C`est une femme belle et dépourvue de sens. |
| German | Ein schönes Weib ohne Zucht ist wie eine Sau mit einem goldenen Haarband. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kecantikan wanita yang tak berbudi serupa cincin emas di hidung babi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka seperti cincin emas pada jungur babi, demikianlah adanya perempuan cantik yang melangkah bahasa. |
| Italian | Un anello d'oro al naso d'un porco, tale è la donna bella ma priva di senno. |
| Korean | 의 인 의 소 원 은 오 직 선 하 나 악 인 의 소 망 은 진 노 를 이 루 느 니 라 |
| Maori | ¶ Rite tonu ki te whakakai koura i te ihu o te poaka te wahine ataahua kahore nei ona ngarahu pai. |
| Norwegian | Som en gullring i et svinetryne er en fager kvinne som er uten forstand. |
| Rumanian | Femeia frumoasq wi fqrq minte este ca un inel de aur pus kn rktul unui porc. - |
| Russian | юФП ЪПМПФПЕ ЛПМШГП Ч ОПУХ Х УЧЙОШЙ, ФП ЦЕОЭЙОБ ЛТБУЙЧБС Й--ВЕЪТБУУХДОБС. |
| Swedish | Såsom en gyllene ring i svinets tryne, så är skönhet hos en kvinna som saknar vett. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ring": ringbark, ringbarked, ringbarking, ringbarks, ringbolt, ringbolts, ringbone, ringbones, ringdove, ringdoves, ringed, ringent, ringer, ringers, ringgit, ringgits, ringhals, ringhalses, ringing, ringingly, ringleader, ringleaders, ringlet, ringlets, ringlike, ringmaster, ringmasters, ringneck, ringnecks, rings, ringside, ringsides, ringstraked, ringtail, ringtails, ringtaw, ringtaws, ringtoss, ringtosses, ringworm, ringworms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ring": abhorring, abjuring, accoutering, accoutring, acquiring, adhering, adjuring, admeasuring, administering, admiring, adoring, adventuring, airing, alluring, altering, ancestoring, anchoring, anearing, angering, answering, antilittering, antiprofiteering, antiracketeering, appearing, armaturing, armoring, armouring, ashlaring, ashlering, aspiring, assuring, attempering, attiring, auguring, authoring, averring, backfiring, backscattering, badgering, bannering, bantering, barbering, baring, barring, bartering, battering, bearing, beavering, beclamoring, bedcovering, bediapering. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ring": admiringly, adoringly, airings, alluringly, astringe, astringed, astringencies, astringency, astringent, astringently, astringents, astringes, astringing, backscatterings, banteringly, bearings, bedcoverings, bedsprings, befringe, befringed, befringes, befringing, beringed, bewilderingly, bioengineerings, birefringence, birefringences, birefringent, blisteringly, blunderingly, blurringly, blusteringly, boringly, boringness, boringnesses, borings, bowstrings, bringdown, bringdowns, bringer, bringers, bringing, brings, brokerings, bullrings, centrings, cheeseparings, childbearings, clatteringly, clearinghouse, clearinghouses. (additional references) | |
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"Ring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hring, mring, ning, ranb, rangh, Ranj, reing, rhing, riang, Rieng, rigg, rign, rilg, rin, rina, ringa, ringe, ringi, Ringk, ringo, ringy, Rini, rinn, Rinnu, rino, rinq, rint, Rinv, rinx, riny, rinz, rlin, rng, Rongo, ronng, roong, ryn, ryng, Ryno, ving, xing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ring" (pronounced ri"ng) |
| 3 | r i" ng | bring, spring, string, wring. |
| 2 | -i" ng | cling, ding, fling, king, Ling, ping, sing, sling, sting, swing, thing, ting, upswing, wing, zing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: girn, grin. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: gin, rig, rin. | |
-2 letters: in. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bring, garni, girns, giron, grain, grind, grins, groin, iring, reign, renig, rings, ruing, unrig, wring. | |
+2 letters: airing, arcing, arming, baring, binger, boring, brings, caring, cering, coring, cringe, crying, curing, daring, dinger, drying, during, earing, engird, engirt, eringo, erring, faring, finger, firing, fringe, fringy, frying, gainer, ginger, ginner, girned, girons, goring, gradin, grains, grainy, gratin, grinch, grinds, gringo, grison, groins, gyring, haring, hinger, hiring, ignore, irking, linger, luring, margin, miring, muring, nigher, oaring, onagri, orbing, origan, origin, paring, pinger, poring, prying, racing, raging, raking, raping, raring, rasing, rating, raving, raxing, raying, razing, reagin, reding, regain, regina, region, reigns, renigs, resign, ricing, riding, riling, riming, ringed, ringer, riping, rising, riving, robing, roping, rosing, roving, rowing, ruling, ryking, sering, signer, signor, singer, siring, soring, spring, string, taring, tiring, trigon, truing, trying, tyring, ungird, ungirt, unrigs, urging, virgin, waring, winger, wiring, wrings, wrying, zinger. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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