a group that forms only a small part of the population, whether it be for ethnic or other reasons.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and differences.
A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
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.