English Dictionary

ring

/ɹɪŋ/

verb

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

She rings her fingers around the coffee mug.

意味（1）

(transitive) To enclose or surround.

The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

意味（2）

(transitive, figuratively) 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.

意味（3）

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

We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

意味（4）

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

to ring a pig’s snout

意味（5）

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

[…] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!

意味（6）

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

Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.

意味（7）

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

‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’