Bottom vs Ring - What's the difference?
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The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses:
# (rfc-sense) The part furthest in the direction toward which an unsupported object would fall.
#* Macaulay
#* Washington Irving
# (rfc-sense) The part seen, or intended to be seen, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the lowest visible objects, as "footers appear at the bottoms of pages".
(uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
(British, US) a valley, often used in place names.
* Stoddard
(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
(nautical) a cargo vessel, a ship.
* 1881 , :
(nautical) certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
* Shakespeare
* Bancroft
(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
(LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
(physics) A bottom quark.
(often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
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A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
* Mortimer
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
An abyss.
(obsolete) Power of endurance.
(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
To fall to the lowest point.
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To establish firmly; to found or justify on'' or ''upon'' something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest ''on'' or ''upon something which provides support or authority.
* Atterbury
* South
* United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives , (2001) p.59.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
* John Locke
To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
(obsolete) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
* Shakespeare
To furnish with a bottom.
To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
The lowest or last place or position.
(label) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
# 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 or through the ear, nose, etc.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
# A burner on a kitchen stove.
# In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
# 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.
# (label) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
(label) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
# A circular group of people or objects.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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# (label) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as (Stonehenge).
A piece of food in the shape of a 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.
* (1672–1710)
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
* (Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
(label) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
(label) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a .
(label) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, page 168.
(label) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring ).
* 2007 , Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
(label) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
Image:JO Atlanta 1996 - Boxe.jpg, A boxing ring .
Image:Finger ring.jpg, A ring on a finger.
Image:Tree rings.jpg, The rings of a tree.
Image:Georges Seurat 019.jpg, The circus ring .
Image:Bird ringing shandong.JPG, A ring on a bird's leg.
Image:Saturn eclipse.jpg, The rings of Saturn.
To surround or enclose.
(figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
* Shakespeare
(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
* 1877 , (Gerard Manley Hopkins), :
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
(colloquial) A telephone call.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
* Francis Bacon
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
* Fuller
Of a bell, to produce sound.
To make (a bell) produce sound.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
(figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
(transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
to resound, reverberate, echo.
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* 1919 , (Boris Sidis), :
To produce music with bells.
(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
(algebra) 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.
(algebra) 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.
Image:Latex integers.svg, The ring of integers.
As nouns the difference between bottom and ring
is that bottom is the lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses: while ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) .As a verb bottom
is to fall to the lowest point.As an adjective bottom
is the lowest or last place or position.bottom
English
Noun
- barrels with the bottom knocked out
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- lack bottom
- Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom ?
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
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- Silkworms finish their bottoms in fifteen days.
- (Dryden)
- a horse of a good bottom
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (lowest part) base * (buttocks) arse (British, Australian, NZ''), ass, fanny (''North American ), backside, bot, bott, botty, bum, buttocks * sit upon, derriere * (BDSM) catcher * (LGBT) catcher, passive, pathic, uke (Japanese fiction) * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (lowest part) top * (BDSM) top * (LGBT) active, pitcher, top, versatileVerb
(en verb)- The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed''' on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index '''bottomed on October 24.
- Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
- those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms .
- As you unwind her love from him, / Lest it should ravel and be good to none, / You must provide to bottom it on me.
- to bottom a chair
Adjective
(en adjective)- ''Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
ring
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), also (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
- And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.
The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring , / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
- the ruling ring at Constantinople
- The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —
- Kernel Mode processes run in ring' 0, and User Mode processes run in ' ring 3.
Synonyms
* (circumscribing object) hoop, annulus, torusDerived terms
* annual ring * benzene ring * boxing ring * brass ring * bull ring * calamari ring * chainring * circus ring * class ring * claw ring * coffee ring * D ring * diamond ring * division ring * earring * egg ring * engagement ring * enringed * finger ring * Fomalhaut dust ring * front ring * gas ring * growth ring * key ring/keyring * life ring * limbal ring * local ring * mancude-ring system * neck ring * nose ring * O-ring * oath ring * Olympic Rings * onion ring * pinky ring * piscatory ring * piston ring * planetary ring * prize ring * quotient ring * (w, Ring a Ring o' Roses) * ring-a-levio * ring armor * ring bark/ringbark/ring-bark * ring-billed * ring binder * ring dance * ring dove/ringdove * ring dropper * ring fence * ring finger/ringfinger * ring game * ringlike * ring mail/ringmail * ring of death * Ring of Fire * ring of steel * ring of truth * ring ouzel * ring parrot * ring plover * ring-porous * ring pull * ring rat * ring road * ring snake * ring spanner * ring species * ring spot * ring stand * ring system * ring-tailed * ring theory * ring thrush * ring toplogy * ringed * ringbearer * ringleader * ringlet * ringlike * ringneck * ring-neck(ed) * ringpiece * ringside * ring spot * ringstraked * ringtail * ring-tail(ed) * ringworm * rubber ring * run rings around * signet ring * seal ring * slip ring * smoke ring * snap ring * spy ring * star ring * synonym ring * teething ring * thumb ring * toe ring * token ring * tongue ring * tree ring * wedding ringSee also
Verb
(en verb)- The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
- They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
- Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
- We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
- to ring a pig's snout
- Ring these fingers.
- .. how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing ..
Derived terms
* ringerEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
- The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
- The name has a nice ring to it.
- I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
- the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
- St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
- as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
Derived terms
* give a ring * ringtoneVerb
- The bells were ringing in the town.
- The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
- The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
- Whose mobile phone is ringing ?
- That does not ring true.
- I will ring you when we arrive.
- So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
- It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
- (Holder)
Derived terms
* ring a bell * ring back * ringer * ringing * ring false * ring off * ring off the hook * ring out * ring someone's bell * ring true * ring up * unringEtymology 3
A shortening of (etyl) ; coined by mathematician in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory , page 49.)Noun
(en noun)- The set of integers, , is the prototypical ring .
- The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set of even integers to be a ring.
