Ring vs Square - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ring and square

is that ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) while square is (geometry) a polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.

As an adjective square is

shaped like a (the polygon).

As a verb square is

to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.

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 ----

square

English

Noun

(en noun)

(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.

* (rfdate)

I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.

An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

There are so many uses for the square , in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. - The Carpenter's Square

An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.

* Addison

The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.

* (rfdate)

You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square .

A cell in a grid.

You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.

(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.

64 is the square of 8.

(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

* Shakespeare

the brave squares of war

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 144:

After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares , during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.

(slang) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s

Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square !

(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

Enter your account number followed by a square .

(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square , measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.

(real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.

2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — (Macquarie Bank) (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared" , 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]

2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares' of living space plus over 13 '''squares''' of decking area on 3 sides and 17 ' squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]

(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.

(academia) A mortarboard

(colloquial, US) A square meal.

''Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.

A pane of glass.

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

* Hooker

They of Galatia [were] much more out of square .

* Shakespeare

I have not kept my square .

The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

* Dryden

We live not on the square with such as these.

(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.

The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

(Shakespeare)

(lb) .

Synonyms

* (polygon) (rare) tetragon * (L-shaped tool) steel square, framing square, carpenter's square * (open space) piazza, plaza * (socially conventional person) see * hash, sharp, (US) pound sign

Derived terms

* carpenter's square * chi-square * combination square * difference of two squares * four square * framing square * goal square * kid on the square * Latin square * machinist square * magic square * market square * mean square * miter square * on the square * optical square * over square * perfect square * public square * Punnett square * set square * square bashing * squareless * square one * square-pushing * square tab shingle * steel square * T-square * three-square * town square * try square * under square * word square

Adjective

(er)

Shaped like a (the polygon).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,

Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

a square corner

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

Honest; straightforward.

square dealing

Fair.

to make or leave the accounts square

(senseid)(slang) Socially conventional; boring.

(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.

Correctly aligned with respect to something else.

hearty; vigorous

* Beaumont and Fletcher

By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.

Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

a man of a square frame

Synonyms

* above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight * (socially conventional) bourgeois

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the adjective "square") * all square * be there or be square * fair and square * square bracket * square centimetre, square centimeter * square circle * square dancing * square deal * square drive * square flipper/squareflipper * square foot * squarehead * square inch * square leg * square knot * square matrix * square meal * square metre, square meter * square mile * square number * square pyramid * square rod * square root * square sail * square shooter * square-shouldered * square-toed * square wave * square yard * squarely * squareness * T-squared

Verb

(squar)

To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.

The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared .

To resolve.

John can square this question up for us.

These results just don't square .

To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.

''to square our actions by the opinions of others

* Milton

Square my trial / To my proportioned strength.

(mathematics) Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a with the same area as.

square the circle

(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.}}

(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

* Cowper

No works shall find acceptance that square not truly with the Scripture plan.

(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

* Shakespeare

Are you such fools / To square for this?

To take a boxing attitude; often with up'' or ''off .

(Dickens)

To form with four sides and four right angles.

(Spenser)

To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

to square mason's work

To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

(Shakespeare)

(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

* Creech

the icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales

(nautical) To place at right angles with the keel.

to square the yards

Derived terms

(terms derived from the verb "square") * square away * square off * square up * square with * square the circle

Synonyms

* (to multiply by itself)

Ring vs Square - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ring and square

As an adjective square is

As a verb square is

ring

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