ringed

American  

[ringd] / rɪŋd /

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.

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ringed British  

/ rɪŋd /

adjective

1. displaying ringlike markings

2. having or wearing a ring

3. formed by rings; annular

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Etymology

Origin of ringed

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

Example Sentences

At the Houses of Parliament, he holds a peregrine falcon chick while it is ringed for identification.

From BBC

Taipei is ringed by mountains and crisscrossed by rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Literature

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Salon

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