1.
[syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]
2. having colored rings around the body;
3. wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married;
- Example: "a ringed wife"- Tennyson
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ring \Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ringing.]
1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
"Ring these fingers." --Shak.
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2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to
girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
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3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a
swine's snout.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ringed \Ringed\, a.
1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
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2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. "A ringed
wife." --Tennyson.
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Ringed seal (Zool.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca foetida)
having ringlike spots on the body.
Ringed snake (Zool.), a harmless European snake
(Tropidonotus natrix) common in England.
Ringed worm (Zool.), an annelid.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ringed
adj 1: shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate,
annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped,
doughnut-shaped]
2: having colored rings around the body
3: wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife"-
Tennyson
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "ringed":
begirt, belted, cinctured, circled, circumscribed, circumscript,
defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined,
encinctured, encircled, fixed, girdled, girt, hedged about, set,
specific, stated, surrounded, zoned