Ring vs Hold - What's the difference?

ring | hold |

As a noun ring

is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) .

As a proper noun hold is

moon.

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

Anagrams

* (l) * (l) * (l) English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----

hold

English

(wikipedia hold)

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

(lb) To grasp or grip.

*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,

(lb) To contain or store.

(lb) To maintain or keep to a position or state.

#(lb) To have and keep possession of something.

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis

, title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, work=Guardian citation , passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}

#(lb) To reserve.

#(lb) To cause to wait or delay.

#(lb) To detain.

#(lb) To be or remain valid; to apply.

#*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

#*:The rule holds in land as all other commodities.

#To keep oneself in a particular state.

#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother

#(lb) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.

#*(Richard Crashaw) (1613-1649)

#*:Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.

#* (1800-1859)

#*:He hath not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue.

#(lb) To bear, carry, or manage.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Let him hold his fingers thus.

# Not to move; to halt; to stop.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:And damned be him that first cries, "Hold , enough!"

#(lb) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Our force by land hath nobly held .

# To remain ; to control an excretory bodily function.

(lb) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.

#(lb) To maintain, to consider, to opine.

#*1776 , (Thomas Jefferson) et al.'', ''(United States Declaration of Independence) :

#*:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}

#(lb) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.

#To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.

#*Bible, (Psalms) lxxxiii.1:

#*:Hold not thy peace, and be not still.

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.

#To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.

#*Bible, ii.15:

#*:Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.

#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:But still he held his purpose to depart.

#(lb) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.

#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:His dauntless heart would fain have held / From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.

To win one's own service game.

To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).

*, chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held , one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

(lb) To derive right or title.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:My crown is absolute, and holds of none.

*1817 , (William Hazlitt), ''

*:His imagination holds immediately from nature.

Antonyms

* release

Derived terms

* be left holding the baby * holdall * hold a candle * hold a grudge * hold accountable * hold back * hold court * hold down * holder * holdfast * hold forth * holding * hold it * hold off * hold on * hold on to * hold one's breath * hold one's fire * hold one's horses * hold one's liquor * hold one's own * hold one's peace * hold out * hold over * hold responsible * hold someone's feet to the fire * hold the cards * hold the fort * hold the line * hold to account * hold up * hold-ups * hold water * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * uphold * withhold * See also'' held''' ''and'' ' holding

Noun

(en noun)

A grasp or grip.

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}

Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.

Something reserved or kept.

We have a hold here for you.

The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.

* 2004 , Zoe Diana Draelos, Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook (page 221)

Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.

(wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.

He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.

(gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.

The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.

(gambling) The wager amount, the total hold .

As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015

(tennis) An instance of .

* 1898 , , Chapter 4

So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold .

A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.

(video games, dated) A pause facility.

* 1983 , New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)

A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.

* 1987 ?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet)

SCREEN 5 — Perhaps the toughest — going like the clappers sometimes works but generally you'll have to be smarter than that. If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.

Derived terms

* foothold * handhold * household * no holds barred * on hold * stronghold * threshhold * military hold * personal hold

References

Etymology 3

Alteration (due to (m)) of (m). Cognate with (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold ).

Put that in the hold .

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Anagrams

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