Make vs Ring - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between make and ring

is that make is to tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against while ring is to produce music with bells.

In transitive terms the difference between make and ring

is that make is to pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.|lang=enring is to make (a bell) produce sound.

In lang=en terms the difference between make and ring

is that make is recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. {{jump|recognition}} singular while ring is to repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

As verbs the difference between make and ring

is that make is To create.ring is to surround or enclose.

As nouns the difference between make and ring

is that make is brand or kind; often paired with model. {{jump|brand|s|t} while ring is a solid object in the shape of a circle.

As a proper noun Ring is

{{surname|from=occupations}} for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness.

make

English

(wikipedia make)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Related to match .

Verb

To create.

#To construct or produce.

#*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

#*:I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

#*:Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

#To write or compose.

#To bring about.

To behave, to act.

(lb) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for'' or ''against .

*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)

*:It makes for his advantage.

*(Bible), (w) xiv.19:

*:Follow after the things which make for peace.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Considerations infinite / Do make against it.

To constitute.

*2014 , A teacher, " Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September:

*:So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, what makes a great primary school.

*1995 , Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work , p.46:

*:Style alone does not make a writer.

*:We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead?cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

To interpret.

To bring into success.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:who makes or ruins with a smile or frown

To cause to be.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

* (c.1568-1645)

*:He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.

*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).

*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

To force to do.

To indicate or suggest to be.

To cover neatly with bedclothes.

To recognise, identify.

*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), (The Big Sleep) , Penguin 2011, p.33:

*:I caught sight of him two or three times and then made him turning north into Laurel Canyon Drive.

*2004 , George Nolfi et al., (w, Ocean's Twelve) , Warner Bros. Pictures, 0:50:30:

*:Linus Caldwell: Well, she just made Danny and Yen, which means in the next 48 hours the three o' your pictures are gonna be in every police station in Europe.

*2007 May 4, Andrew Dettmann et al., "Under Pressure", episode 3-22 of , 00:01:16:

*:David Sinclair: (walking) Almost at Seventh; I should have a visual any second now. Damn, that was close.
Don Eppes: David, he make you?
David Sinclair: No, I don't think so.

To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.

*Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)

*:They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.

To proceed (in a direction).

(lb) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}

*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Chapter VIII:

*:I made over twenty miles that day, for I was now hardened to fatigue and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable time hunting and exploring in the immediate vicinity of camp.

(lb) To move at (a speed).

To appoint; to name.

*1991 , Bernard Guenée, Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates (ISBN 0226310329):

*:On November 15, 1396,Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;

To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).

*1990 , Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, (Goodfellas) :

*:Jimmy Conway: They're gonna make him.

*:Henry Hill: Paulie's gonna make you?

To defecate or urinate.

(lb) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, work=BBC

, title= Wales 2-1 Montenegro , passage=Wales' defence had an unfamiliar look with Cardiff youngster Darcy Blake preferred to 44-cap Danny Gabbidon of Queen's Park Rangers, who did not even make the bench.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , passage=Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”}}

(lb) To pay, to cover (an expense);

*1889 May 1, Chief Justice , Pensacola & A. R. Co. v. State'' of Florida (judicial opinion), reproduced in ''The Southern Reporter , Volume 5, West Publishing Company, p.843:

*:Whether,would present a case in which the exaction of prohibitory or otherwise onerous rates may be prevented, though it result in an impossibility for some or all of the roads to make expenses, we need not say; no such case is before us.

*2005 , Yuvi Shmul and Ron Peltier, Make It Big with Yuvi: How to Buy Or Start a Small Business, the Best Investment , AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4259-0021-6, p.67:

*:At first glance, you may be able to make' rent and other overhead expenses because the business is doing well, but if sales drop can you still ' make rent?

*2011 , Donald Todrin, Successfully Navigating the Downturn , Entrepreneur Press, ISBN 1-59918-419-2, p.194:

*:So you can’t make' payroll. This happens.many business owners who have never confronted it before will be forced to deal with this most difficult matter of not ' making payroll.

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

:(Chaucer)

:(Tennyson)

*ca.1360-1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman)

*:to solace him some time, as I do when I make

To enact; to establish.

*1791 , The (First Amendment to the United States Constitution):

*:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

To develop into; to prove to be.

To form or formulate in the mind.

(lb) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make .

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:a scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make

(lb) To increase; to augment; to accrue.

(lb) To be engaged or concerned in.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?

Derived terms

* formake * make a deal * make a face * make a fuss * make a move * make a muscle * make a pass * make a promise * make a wish * make an honest woman out of * make an offer * make away * make away with * make book * make conscience * make do * make good on (a promise) * make for * make friends * make hay * make hay while the sun shines * make into * make it * make light of * make like * make love * make merry * make money * make music * make off with * make-or-break * make out * make over * make right * make room * make someone's blood boil * make someone's blood run cold * make something of * make the most of * make time * make to * make up * make water * make whole * make with * mismake * unmake

Noun

(en noun)

(often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.

What make of car do you drive?

How a thing is made; construction. (jump)

* {{quote-book, 1907, , A Horse's Tale citation

, passage=I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it.}}

Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture. (jump)

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make , for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

The camera was of German make .

(uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials. (jump)

* {{quote-news, 1902, September 16, , German Iron and Steel Production, The New York Times, page=8 citation

, passage=In 1880 the make of pig iron in all countries was 18,300,000 tons.}}

(dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. (jump)

* {{quote-book, 1908, Charles Thomas Jacobi, Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books, page=331 citation

, passage=

A person's character or disposition. (jump)

* {{quote-book, 1914, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Perch of the Devil, page=274 citation

, passage=I never feel very much excited about any old thing; it's not my make ; but I've got a sort of shiver inside of me, and a watery feeling in the heart region.}}

(bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.

* {{quote-book, 1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page=195 citation

, passage=It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.}}

(physics) The closing of an electrical circuit. (jump)

* {{quote-book, 1947, Charles Seymour Siskind, Electricity, page=94 citation

, passage=If the interrupter operated every 2 sec., the current would rise to 10 amp. and drop to zero with successive "makes " and "breaks."}}

(computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.

* {{quote-book, 2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, page=115, isbn=0471430595 citation

, passage=However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.}}

(slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. (jump)

* {{quote-book, 2003, John Lutz, The Night Spider, page=53, isbn=0786015160 citation

, passage="They ever get a make on the blood type?" Horn asked, staring at the stained mattress.}}

Past or future target of seduction (usually female). (jump)

* {{quote-book, 2007, Prudence Mors Rains, Becoming an Unwed Mother, page=26 citation

, passage=To me, if I weren't going with someone and was taking pills, it would be like advertising that I'm an easy make .}}

* {{quote-book, 1962, Ralph Moreno, A Man's Estate citation

, passage=She's your make , not mine.

(slang, military) A promotion.

* {{quote-book, 2004, Joseph Stilwell, Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell, page=94 citation

, passage=Sent back the list of makes with only Post and Hamilton on it. (Buckner had recommended 10 staff officers and 1 combat soldier!)}}

A home-made project

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Synonyms

* brand; type; manufacturer * (jump) construction; manufacture * (jump) origin; manufacture * (jump) production; output * (jump) making; manufacture; manufacturing; production * (jump) makeup, disposition, character; type, way * (jump) closing; completion; actuation * (jump) ID, identification * (jump) lay

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . See also match .

Noun

(en noun)

(dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:

Th'Elfe therewith astownd, / Vpstarted lightly from his looser make , / And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take.

* {{quote-book, 1624, , The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth

, passage=Where their maids and their makes / At dancing and wakes, / Had their napkins and posies / And the wipers for their noses}}

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, 1826, , Woodstock; Or, the Cavalier

, passage=the last we shall have, I take it; for a make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.}}

* 1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite , Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 606:

Only as he climbed the steps did he mind that he hadn't even a meck upon him, and turned to jump off as the tram with a showd swung grinding down to the Harbour […].

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ring

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), also (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(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)

The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.

# (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)

And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.

#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= 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.}}

# (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.

* (1672–1710)

Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring , / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

* (Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)

the ruling ring at Constantinople

(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.

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. —

(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)

Kernel Mode processes run in ring' 0, and User Mode processes run in ' ring 3.

(label) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

Synonyms

* (circumscribing object) hoop, annulus, torus

Derived 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 ring

Verb

(en verb)

To surround or enclose.

The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

(figuratively) 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.

We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

to ring a pig's snout

* Shakespeare

Ring these fingers.

(falconry) To rise in the air spirally.

* 1877 , (Gerard Manley Hopkins), :

.. how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing ..

Derived terms

* ringer

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.

The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.

(figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.

The name has a nice ring to it.

(colloquial) A telephone call.

I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

* Francis Bacon

the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.

* Fuller

as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world

Derived terms

* give a ring * ringtone

Verb

Of a bell, to produce sound.

The bells were ringing in the town.

To make (a bell) produce sound.

The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

* Shakespeare

The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.

(figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

Whose mobile phone is ringing ?

(figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

That does not ring true.

(transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).

I will ring you when we arrive.

to resound, reverberate, echo.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

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.

* 1919 , (Boris Sidis), :

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."

To produce music with bells.

(Holder)

(dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

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 * unring

Etymology 3

A shortening of (etyl) ; coined by mathematician in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory , page 49.)

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

The set of integers, $\mathbb{Z}$ , is the prototypical ring .

(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.

The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set $2\mathbb{Z}$ of even integers to be a ring.

Hypernyms

* pseudo-ring * semiring

Hyponyms

* commutative ring ** integral domain *** unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain **** principal ideal domain ***** Euclidean domain ****** field

Derived terms

* Boolean ring * polynomial ring

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