Word Type
Ring can be a verb or a noun.
ring used as a verb:
- To surround or enclose.
"The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas." - To make an incision around; to girdle.
"They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year." - To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
"Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons." - To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
"Whose mobile phone is ringing?" - To make a (church) bell produce sound.
"The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel." - Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
"That does not ring true." - To telephone someone.
"I will ring you when we arrive." - to resound, reverberate, echo
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
ring used as a noun:
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.
- A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ring
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring.
- A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
- A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as w:Stonehenge.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
"The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley." - A pleasant or correct sound.
"The name has a nice ring to it." - A telephone call.
"I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands." - An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is an abelian group under addition and a monoid under multiplication.
"The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, is the prototypical ring." - An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under multiplication, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
"The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2\mathbb{Z} of even integers to be a ring."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is ring?
- Verb usage: The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
- Verb usage: They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
- Verb usage: Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
- Verb usage: We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
- Verb usage: Whose mobile phone is ringing?
- Verb usage: The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
- Verb usage: That does not ring true.
- Verb usage: I will ring you when we arrive.
- Noun usage: The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
- Noun usage: The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
- Noun usage: The name has a nice ring to it.
- Noun usage: I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
- Noun usage: The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, is the prototypical ring.
- Noun usage: The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2\mathbb{Z} of even integers to be a ring.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of ring are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of ring, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
