Continuous (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption |
Continuous (a.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity |
Relay (v. t.) To lay again |
Relay (n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages |
Relay (n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay. |
Relay (n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way. |
Relay (n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work. |
Relay (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record |
Ring (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body |
Ring (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell |
Ring (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly. |
Ring (v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. |
Ring (v. i.) To practice making music with bells. |
Ring (v. i.) To sound loud |
Ring (v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate |
Ring (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk |
Ring (n.) A sound |
Ring (n.) Any loud sound |
Ring (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned. |
Ring (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop. |
Ring (n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person |
Ring (n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed |
Ring (n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight |
Ring (n.) A circular group of persons. |
Ring (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. |
Ring (n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure. |
Ring (n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite. |
Ring (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium. |
Ring (n.) A clique |
Ring (v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring |
Ring (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark |
Ring (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout. |
Ring (v. i.) To rise in the air spirally. |
Ring-necked (a.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck. |
Ring-streaked (a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body |
Ring-tailed (a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
relay | the act of passing something along from one person or group to another, the relay was successful |
ring-around-theosy ring-around-aosy ring-aosy | a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat |
round dance ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
ring vaccination | administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient, prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization |
listening watch continuous receiver watch | a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch |
ring containment | a strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism, vaccination only of people exposed and others who are in contact with them, ring containment is a proven method of halting a smallpox epidemic |
ring rot bacteria Pseudomonas solanacearum | causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc |
ring ouzel ring blackbird ring thrush Turdus torquatus | European thrush common in rocky areas, the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck |
ringneck snake ring-necked snake ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
grass snake ring snake ringed snake Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus | common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring |
ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri | African parakeet |
Madagascar cat ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
a bassarisk cacomistle cacomixle coon cat raccoon fox ringtail ring-tailed cat civet cat miner's cat Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
band ring | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) |
beltway bypass ring road ringway | a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
binder ring-binder | holds loose papers or magazines |
booster booster amplifier booster station relay link relay station relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
boxing ring prize ring | a square ring where boxers fight |
carabiner karabiner snap ring | an oblong metal ring with a spring clip, used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes |
chain mail ring mail mail chain armor chain armour ring armor ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings |
comforter pacifier baby's dummy teething ring | device used for an infant to suck or bite on |
curtain ring | a circular ring for holding up a curtain |
engagement ring | a ring given and worn as a sign of betrothal |
gas ring | gas burner consisting of a circular metal pipe with several small holes through which gas can escape to be burned |
hoop ring | a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling, there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse |
key ring | a circular ring of metal for holding keys |
life buoy lifesaver life belt life ring | a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material |
lockring lock ring lock washer | washer that prevents a nut from loosening |
mourning ring | a ring worn as a memorial to a dead person |
napkin ring | a circular band used to hold a particular person's napkin |
nose ring | a ring worn on the nose as an ornament or on the nose of an animal to control it |
O ring | a gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic, used to seal a joint against high pressure |
piston ring | seal consisting of a split metal ring that seals the gap between a piston and the cylinder wall |
relay electrical relay | electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit |
ring band | jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger, she had rings on every finger, he noted that she wore a wedding band |
ring | a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle |
signet ring seal ring | a ring bearing a signet |
slinger ring | dispenser consisting of a tubular ring around the propeller hub of an airplane through which antifreeze solution is spread over the blades |
slip ring | connection consisting of a metal ring on a rotating part of a machine, provides a continuous electrical connection through brushes on stationary contacts |
storage ring | container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used |
sumo ring | the circular ring in which Sumo wrestlers compete |
towel ring | a circular hoop for holding a towel |
wedding ring wedding band | a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding |
wrestling ring | a square ring in which wrestlers compete |
ring | a characteristic sound, it has the ring of sincerity |
areola ring of color | small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite |
ring finger annualry | the third finger (especially of the left hand) |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |