Ring vs Roll - What's the difference?

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Ring is a related term of roll.

As nouns the difference between ring and roll

is that ring is ring (a place where some sports take place; as, a boxing ring) while roll is role.

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.

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, 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 ----

roll

English

Verb

(en verb)

(ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.

* Shakespeare

And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls', and '''rolls''', and ' rolls .

* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13

The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.

To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.

To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up .

To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.

The cloth rolls''' unevenly; the snow '''rolls well.

(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.

(ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.

To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.

To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.

The pastry rolls well.

(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

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(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.

(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.

To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

(geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

(US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.

* 2006 , Chris McKenna, "Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens", Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, November 21, [http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321].

"This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.

(gaming, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.

(gaming) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

To have a rolling aspect.

(gaming) To create a new character in a role-playing game.

(computing) To generate a random number.

To turn over and over.

To tumble in gymnastics.

(nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.

To beat up.

(slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.

(slang) To betray secrets.

(informal) To act.

* 2001 September 11, (Todd Beamer):

Let's roll !

(slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).

* 2000 , Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance , Writers Club Press, ISBN 9780595156115, page 15:

Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”

* 2003 , Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear (novel), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3, page 169:

The crowd was rolling' on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was ' rolling .

* unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online , Lexington Books (2007), ISBN 978-0-7391-1455-1

So the quesion is When you are rolling' what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m ' rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds

(of a camera) To film.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 15, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , passage=So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.}}

To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.

The years roll on.

To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

* Prior

what different sorrows did within thee roll

To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.

The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:

Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.

Derived terms

* let's roll * rollable * roller * roll in the aisles * roll off * roll off the tongue * roll on * roll out * roll-out * roll-over * roll over * roll the dice * roll up

Noun

(en noun)

The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.

the roll of a ball

Look at the roll of the waves.

That which rolls; a roller.

# A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

# One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

to pass rails through the rolls

# That which is rolled up.

a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

# A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

#* Prior

Busy angels spread / The lasting roll , recording what we say.

# Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

#* Sir M. Hale

The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.

#* Sir J. Davies

The roll and list of that army doth remain.

# A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

a roll''' of carpeting; a '''roll of ribbon

# A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.

A heavy, reverberatory sound.

Hear the roll of cannon.

Hear the roll of thunder.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 594:

Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.

the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis

Calculate the roll of that aircraft.

The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.

Make your roll.

Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.

A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .

He is on a roll tonight.

A training match for a fighting dog.

Derived terms

* bread roll * enrol, enroll * roll cage * roll call * roll-to-roll * sausage roll * Swiss roll

External links

* * English ergative verbs ----

Ring vs Roll - What's the difference?

Ring is a related term of roll.

As nouns the difference between ring and roll

ring

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Etymology 2

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roll

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