Ringed vs Rung - What's the difference?
ringed | rung |
Marked with rings, circles or loops.
Wearing a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
* Tennyson
(ring) (Etymology 1 only; the circle sense)
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
(nautical, dated) A floor timber in a ship.
(dated) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
(engineering, dated) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
(engineering, dated) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
(only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)
(chiefly, dialectal) (ring)
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , VI:
*:With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung , / Belle Chuck'' was now the ''TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
* {{quote-journal, journals=Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General ..., page=229,
books.google.com/books?id=YHYbAQAAIAAJ, South Carolina. General Assembly, year=1906, passage=Mr. Seibels, in his testimony, said I rung' him up to see about labels. He is very much mistaken. I ' rung him up to see about bottles.}}
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As verbs the difference between ringed and rung
is that ringed is past tense of ring (Etymology 1 only; the circle sense)rung is past participle of lang=en (only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)As an adjective ringed
is marked with rings, circles or loops.As a noun rung is
a crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.ringed
English
Adjective
(-)- a ringed wife