a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
The bias caused by the halo effect.
A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
To encircle with a halo.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
A circular group of people or objects.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
A pleasant or correct sound.
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.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
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.
Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
A telephone call.
A burner on a kitchen stove.
An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
To produce (a sound) by ringing.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
To telephone (someone).
To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
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.
to resound, reverberate, echo.
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
To produce music with bells.
To enclose or surround.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
To rise in the air spirally.