High vs Ring - What's the difference?
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Elevated in position or status; above many things.
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, chapter=1 Tall, lofty, at a great distance above the ground (at high altitude).
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, title= (figuratively) Noble, especially of motives, intentions, etc.
(slang) Under the psychological effects of a mood-affecting drug, especially marijuana, or (less common) alcohol.
Of a quantity or value, great or large.
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, title= (acoustics) Of greater frequency, i.e. with more rapid wave oscillations.
(of a, body of water) With tall waves.
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(of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
Of great strength, force, importance, etc.; mighty; powerful; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 13
* Dryden
* Thackeray
Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud.
* Bible, Proverbs xxi. 4
* Clarendon
Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount.
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
(phonetics) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree.
* Spenser
* Baker
In or to an elevated position.
In or at a great value.
In a pitch of great frequency.
A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
A drug that gives such a high.
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, title= (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
(card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
(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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, title= # (label) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
# (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.
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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.
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(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.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* 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 high and ring
is that high is (obsolete) thought; intention; determination; purpose or high can be a period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs while ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) .As an adjective high
is elevated in position or status; above many things.As an adverb high
is in or to an elevated position.As a verb high
is (obsolete) to rise or high can be to hie; to hasten.high
English
(wikipedia high)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) high, heigh, heih, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* hi (informal)Adjective
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high ; I never see anybody so polite.}}
citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
- Epicures do not cook game before it is high .
- a high''' wind; '''high passions
- Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
- Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
- with rather a high manner
- An high look and a proud heart is sin.
- His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
- to hear and answer such high things
- Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- high''' (i.e. intense) heat; '''high''' (i.e. full or quite) noon; '''high''' (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; '''high''' (i.e. complete) pleasure; '''high''' (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; '''high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship
- High time it is this war now ended were.
- High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies.
Antonyms
* lowDerived terms
* at the high port * fly high * get high * high altar * high as a kite * high and dry * high and low * high and mighty * high-beam * high blood pressure * high-born * high C * high card * high chair * high-class * high concept * high cotton * high country * high court * high-definition * high-density * high-end * high-energy * high explosive * high fantasy * high fashion * high fidelity * high five/high-five * high-frequency * High German * high-handed * high-hanging * high-hat * high heels * high hopes/have high hopes * high horse/on one's high horse * high island * high jinks * high jump * high-level * high line * high-maintenance * High Mass * high-minded * high-mindedly * high nelly * high-octane * high on the hog * high-pitch * high-pitched * high-powered * high pressure/high-pressure * high priest * high profile * high-ranking * high relief * high-rise * high-risk * high road * high roller * high school * high sea * high season * high-sounding * high-speed * high-spirited * high spirits * high-stick * high street * high-strung * high tackle * high tea * high-tech * high tension * high-test * high tide * high time * high-toned * high touch * high treason * high water * high yaller * highfalutin * highlight * highly * highness/Highness * highway * in high dudgeon * junior high * knee-high * Mile High Club * Most High * on high * sky-high * ultra-high * thigh-high * waist-high (high)See also
* mightyAdverb
(er)- How high above land did you fly?
- Costs have grown higher this year again.
- I certainly can't sing that high .
Usage notes
* The adverb high' and the adverb ' highly shouldn't be confused. *: He hung the picture high on the wall. *: ''As a politician, he isn't esteemed too highly .Noun
(en noun)- They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high .
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs ” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
See also
* crashEtymology 3
See hie.Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordsring
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.