Ring vs Master - What's the difference?
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(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.
* (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.
* 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.
Someone who has control over something or someone.
* Addison
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
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The owner of an animal or slave.
(nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
Someone who employs others.
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An expert at something.
* Macaulay
* John Locke
A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
(dated) A schoolmaster.
A skilled artist.
(dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
* Jonathan Swift
A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
A person holding such a degree.
The original of a document or of a recording.
(film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
(legal) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
(engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source (e.g. master database).
A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, especially the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
Masterful.
Main, principal or predominant.
Highly skilled.
Original.
To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
* (and other bibliographic details) (John Locke)
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
(obsolete) To own; to posses.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
To make a master copy of.
To earn a Master's degree.
As nouns the difference between ring and master
is that ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) while master is (l) (original version of a document or of a recording).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.
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- 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.
Hypernyms
* pseudo-ring * semiringHyponyms
* commutative ring ** integral domain *** unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain **** principal ideal domain ***** Euclidean domain ****** fieldDerived terms
* Boolean ring * polynomial ringSee also
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----master
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) maister, mayster, meister, from (etyl) ). Reinforced by (etyl) maistre, mestre from the same Latin source.Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal), (l) (dialectal) * mastre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- master of a hundred thousand drachms
- We are masters of the sea.
- great masters of ridicule
- No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.
- Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants.
Synonyms
* (sense, master's degree) masters, master's * (sense, master's degree) magistrate (Quebec English) * (film) establishing shot, long shot * (ship) skipper, captain * See alsoDerived terms
(master) * ballet master * barmaster * beemaster * bergmaster * boroughmaster * brewmaster * burghomaster * burgomaster * bushmaster * chess master * cockmaster * concertmaster * craftsmaster * dockmaster * drill master/drillmaster * games master/games-master * Grand Master/grandmaster * harbor master/harbor-master/harbormaster * headmaster * house master/housemaster * ironmaster * * jumpmaster * loadmaster * lockmaster * master bedroom * master bricklayer * master builder * master card * master cast * master class * master copy * master cylinder * master file * master gland * master key * master mariner * master mason * Master of Arts * master of ceremonies * Master of Science * master plan/master-plan/masterplan * master race * master sergeant * master status * master tradesman * master trust * master-at-arms * masterdom * masterful * masterhood * masterless * masterly * mastermind * masterous * masterpiece * Masters * mastership * mastersinger * masterstroke * masterwork * mastery * metal master * mint-master * old master * past master * paymaster * postmaster * property master * puppet master/puppet-master/puppetmaster * quartermaster * question master/question-master/questionmaster * quizmaster * rattlesnake master * ringmaster * roaming master * saymaster * schoolmaster * scoutmaster * sheepmaster * shipmaster * spymaster * stationmaster * taskmaster * toastmaster * trackmaster * trainmaster * undermaster * watermaster * webmaster * weighmaster * whoremaster * workmaster * wreck master/wreck-master/wreckmaster * yardmasterSee also
* (l) * (l)Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered , even though it cost blows.
- Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
- It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.
- the wealth that the world masters
- He mastered in English at the state college.