单词 | in a ring |
释义 | > as lemmasin a ring a. A circle or circular group of people; spec. a circle of people in a dance. in a ring: in circular formation, arranged or grouped in a circle.In quot. OE in extended use with reference to the birds surrounding the phoenix. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > [noun] > arrangement in a group > a circular group of people ringOE round1489 rotund1636 circle1766 round O1845 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > a circular formation > of persons or creatures ringOE round1489 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [phrase] > in a circle or ring in rounda1382 in a round1489 in a ring1772 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > arranged in other specific manner [phrase] > in a circle in a round1489 in a ring1772 OE Phoenix 339 Ðonne fugla cynn on healfa gehwore [read gehwone] heapum þringað, sigað sidwegum.., ond swa þone halgan hringe beteldað flyhte on lyfte. lOE Salisbury Psalter: Canticles x. 7 Gloriosus apostolorum chorus : wuldorful apostolan hring. c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 297 Ha..schulen i widewene ring, biuore þe iweddede, singen in heouene. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 163 Þus ich..Eede o Ring [a1300 Caius oringe; ?c1225 Cleo. on ring, a1250 Titus in Ring] i chirchȝard. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 6100 (MED) Of Sarazins gret þreng About our Cristen made reng And hem biclepten in þat place. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 9* F[emme]. treche mene pur deduyt, W[oman]. the ryng leduth for ioye. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 1110 Alisaundres folk com flynge, Fyue hundred vpon [a1425 Linc. Inn in] a rynge. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 1540 (MED) The hors, and thei on foote of dignitee..in circuyte a rynge Shal make, and kepe of al hostilitie. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 450 (MED) The tenthe fooll may hoppe vpon the ryng..and lede of riht the daunce. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. iv. 37 Quhen Apollo list..ga..To vesy Delos..Renewand ringis and dancis, mony a rowt. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 790 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 119 Fair ladyis in ryngis Knychtis in caralyngis Boith dansis & syngis. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxx They putting them selues into a ringe,..stand to their defence. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 12v Dauncing in a ring, with theyr armes spred abrode, and hanfasted man, with man and woman with woman. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 159 Make a Ring about the Corpes of Cæsar. View more context for this quotation 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 250 They all rise upright and put themselves into a Ring one behind another. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. xiii. 236 When one of them has got a ring of Disciples round him. 1772 W. Jones Poems 127 The swains before them crouded in a ring. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxv The ring being formed, two or three hunters ride towards the horses, who start off in an opposite direction. 1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 743 The men squat in a ring around the net, and pick out with their fingers the objects that are entangled in it. 1926 Travel Nov. 35/2 The tortillas were baked, and a group of people were sitting in a ring on the ground, eating them. 1978 W. Tydeman Theatre in Middle Ages i. 14 One lyric in which girls dancing in a ring seem to tease the young men into joining them. 2008 P. Spierenburg Hist. Murder vi. 175 One-on-one street fights among young working-class women, around whom spectators also formed a ring. in a ring a. A circular or spiral course or orbit. in a ring, †in ring: in a circle. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in circle > circular course ringeOE virona1380 environa1382 roundness?c1425 circuit1483 orbicular1523 round1539 bouta1542 rundle1574 ring road1828 orbit1831 ring-around1894 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > moving in circle or curve [phrase] > in circular course in rounda1382 round and round1565 in ring1674 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 341 Orbes orbibus, hringa hohhwyrfinge. OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxiv. 12 Þonne þu geares hring mid gyfe bletsast and þine fremsumnesse wylt folcum dælan. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) v. xix. 470 Sona [he] sende geond eall his rice, & het writan & leornian & healdan þurh ealle Peohta mægðe þa nigontynlican hringas rihtra Eastrana [L. circuli Paschae decennovenales]. OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xxi. 172 Ær sunne twelf monða hringc [L. annilem orbem] utan ymbgan hæbbe, þu wealdest þises rice[s]. 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon iii. sig. Dvi The frolyck fyshe..about the seas doth swym, With gamballs quick in rings around. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aiij How my Palfrey..daunced the Goates iumpe, when I ranne the ring round about him to retriue him. 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. H3 One of the Bees.., when she hath cast a ring to know where shee is, will fly as directly home as the other. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 91 As for their motion in ring or circular. 1714 E. Young Force of Relig. ii. 200 Decrepid winter, in the yearly ring, Thus slowly creeps, to meet the blooming spring. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 31 Wide around,..in airy Rings they rove. 1781 W. Cowper Anti-Thelypthora 32 They sport like wanton doves in airy rings. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 60 Circles of life dissolving sounds,..in aery rings they bound. 1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 146 You're nothing near the thing! You only argy in a ring. 1881 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 40 Others [of the larks]..go gaily up in circular rings, ‘ringing’ as the falconers call it. 1953 M. Irwin Elizabeth & Prince of Spain iv. 60 They joined hands and dragged each other round and round in a ring. 1994 D. F. Wallace Getting Away in Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997) 105 A lot of cows move in a ring around the perimeter of the dirt circle. < as lemmas |
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