ring (original) (raw)
ring noun (PHONE)
A2 [ S ] mainly UK (US usually and UK also call)
the act of making a phone call to someone:
give someone a ring I'll give you a ring tomorrow.
ring noun (SOUND)
There was a ring at the door.
He gave a ring at the door.
Idioms
ring verb (PHONE)
A2 [ I or T ] mainly UK rang | rung (US usually and UK also call)
to make a phone call to someone:
ring (in) The boss rang (in) to say he'll be back at 4.30.
ring (up) Why don't you ring (up) Simon and ask him to the party?
More examplesFewer examples
- "I'm sorry I forgot to ring you." "Oh, don't worry."
- "Margot rang to say she's too busy to come." "She would - she always has an excuse."
- That decorator you rang about painting the house - did he ever return your call?
- If anyone rings for me, please tell them I'll be back in the office at four o'clock.
- I've just rung him but there was no answer.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
ring verb (MAKE SOUND)
I rang the bell but nobody came to the door.
ring verb (CIRCLE)
[ T ] UK ringed | ringed (US band)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of ring from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
ring | American Dictionary
ring noun (CIRCLE)
ring noun (SPACE)
ring noun (GROUP)
ring noun (SOUND)
Idiom
ring verb (SOUND)
[ I/T ] past tense rang us/ræŋ/ | past participle rung us/rʌŋ/
ring verb (CIRCLE)
ringer
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of ring from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
ring | Business English
ring the (cash) register (also (cash) registers are ringing)
ring off the hook US
COMMUNICATIONS
if a phone is ringing off the hook, it rings a lot of times:
Phrasal verbs
give sb a ring UK informal
See also
(Definition of ring from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of ring
ring
During lignification, phenyl rings of lignin precursors align to the cellulose molecule surfaces in a controlled and ordered process.
These will complete a ring of trees around the site.
The seeds (diameter 1-2 mm) contain a peripheral embryo that forms a ring around the central perisperm.
People preferred to be paid in bracelets, rings, glass necklaces, and other items.
Soon after this the annular ring also becomes unstable and breaks up into somewhat larger droplets.
Inverted pigeonite is often enclosed by clinopyroxene (augite) and contains her ring bone-like augite lamellae.
We have identified one pathway which unquestionably arose from such a remnant of ring tissue.
The ring, once completed, would have been able to take any hoop stresses that arose from the next course to be erected.
Nonetheless, the interviews will likely ring familiar and genuine to those who knew some of these artists.
This may open the way to finding relatively distinct growth rings in the xylem of some evergreen species in these forests.
The feet have five toes each and rest on a ring below which extends a 16.5 cm long cylindrical peg base.
Knees are shown but no depiction of feet; the legs end in a ring below which is a round peg base 8 cm long.
After the formation of the fibrous atrioventricular junction, the ring becomes eventually located in the lower margin of the right atrial myocardium.
As another example, consider transport in the vicinity of a single unsteady vortex ring.
If an action in the script did not ring true, the actor had to imagine circumstances that made it meaningful.
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