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 ring A 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: These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
Telephone
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).
Example sentence: If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.