simple past tense and past participle of ring (circled, enclosed)

(transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.

To make a phone call to (this place). / (transitive) To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.

(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of 2 rings suspended from a bar. / (post-mid century) Ellipsis of still rings. / A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

plural of ring

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ring

A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness. / A parish of County Waterford, Ireland.

(algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. / (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound. / (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

(intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. / (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. / (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.