ring vs wring
Definitions
verb
- ring or echo with sound
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
noun
- a toroidal shape
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- an association of criminals
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
Examples
Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
Definitions
noun
- a twisting squeeze
verb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
Examples
Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like
There were months of handwringing and hankie clutching and ‘how will we ever sleep again knowing that political activity took place in the People's House!’
I would probably wring his neck.
