Idioms for ring
Origin of ring
2
before 900; Middle English
ringen, Old English
hringan; cognate with Old Norse
hringja, German
ringen
OTHER WORDS FROM ring
ring·ing·ly, adverb ring·ing·ness, nounWords nearby ring
rinceau,
rind,
rinderpest,
rinehart,
rinforzando,
ring,
ring a bell,
ring abscess,
ring back,
ring binder,
ring buoy
British Dictionary definitions for ring down the curtain on (1 of 2)
ring
1
/ (rɪŋ) /
noun
verb rings, ringing or ringed (tr)
Word Origin for ring
Old English
hring; related to Old Norse
hringr
British Dictionary definitions for ring down the curtain on (2 of 2)
ring
2
/ (rɪŋ) /
verb rings, ringing, rang or rung
noun
Word Origin for ring
Old English
hringan; related to Old High German
hringen Old Norse
hringja
usage for ring
Rang and
sang are the correct forms of the past tenses of
ring and
sing, although
rung and
sung are still heard informally and dialectally:
he rung (
rang)
the bell
Medical definitions for ring down the curtain on
ring
[ rĭng ]
n.
A circular object, form, or arrangement with a vacant circular center.
The area between two concentric circles; annulus.
A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in circular or triangular form.
Scientific definitions for ring down the curtain on
ring
[ rĭng ]
A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is an abelian group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.
A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in circular or triangular form. Benzene, for example, contains a ring of six carbon atoms. All cyclic compounds contain one or more rings. See annulus.
See growth ring.
Idioms and Phrases with ring down the curtain on (1 of 2)
ring down the curtain on
Bring something to an end, as in We'd best get to that grand old hotel before they ring down the curtain on it. This idiom alludes to the old practice of signaling that a theater curtain be lowered at the ring of a bell. Similarly, ring up the curtain on refers to a bell rung to begin a performance and came to mean starting anything, as in Their contribution rang up the curtain on the fund drive. The figurative use of these terms dates from the early 1900s.
Idioms and Phrases with ring down the curtain on (2 of 2)
ring