To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
To obtain by force.
To hold tightly and press or twist.
To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
To kill an animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
To bend or strain out of its position.
A powerful squeezing or twisting action.
A press; a device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider.
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.
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.
A group of objects arranged in a circle.
A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
A circular group of people or objects.
A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
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.
An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
A pleasant or correct sound.
A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
A telephone call.
Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
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.
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.
To surround.
To make an girdle.
To ring to, especially for identification.
To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
To rise in the air spirally.
Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
To telephone (someone).
to resound, reverberate, echo.
To produce music with bells.
To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
