ringed

[ringd]

adjective

1. having or wearing a ring or rings. ring.

2. marked or decorated with or as if with a ring or rings. ring.

3. surrounded by or as if by a ring or rings. ring.

4. formed of or with rings; ring; ringlike or annular.

   a ringed growth.

5. Armor.,  noting armor having rings ring sewn side by side to a flexible backing.

ringed

/ rɪŋd /

adjective

1. displaying ringlike markings

2. having or wearing a ring

3. formed by rings; annular

Word History and Origins

Origin of ringed¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English hringed; ring ¹, -ed ³, -ed ²

Example Sentences

They crawled over rocks and down into tide pools and through the dead fields that ringed the island.

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In nearby Hermiston, Ore., where small armies of workers recently toiled at two data-center sites ringed by barbed-wire fences, officials are trying to annex land for additional development in a bet the boom will continue.

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This astrological belief holds that the ringed planet’s return to the position it occupied at a person’s birth marks the dividing line between youth and true adulthood.

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The largest jail for IS suspects is al-Sina in the city of Al Hasakah - ringed by high walls, and watch towers.

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This begins with buds that are ringed in white paper cones that protect the baby plant as it grows.

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