Difference between Doughnut and Ring

What is the difference between Doughnut and Ring?

Doughnut as a noun is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream. while Ring as a noun is a circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

Doughnut

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream. Anything in the shape of a torus. A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of doughnut or toroid; a 360-degree skid. (derogatory slang) A fat person. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

Example sentence: It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.

Ring

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To surround or enclose.To make an incision around; to girdle.To attach a ring to, especially for identification.To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.To make a (church) bell produce sound.Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.To telephone someone.to resound, reverberate, echo

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger.A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.A piece of food in the shape of a ring, as in onion ringA place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices; as a crime ring.A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter.An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.a large circular prehistoric stone construction such as w:Stonehenge.The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.A pleasant or correct sound.A telephone call.An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is an abelian group under addition and a monoid under multiplication.An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under multiplication, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.

Example sentence: Ring out the false, ring in the true.

We hope you now know whether to use Doughnut or Ring in your sentence.

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