Verb (used without object) : The road rings around the mountain. From Dictionary.com.
It had a long narrow head with a conical snout, narrowing in ringlike stages. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
In 1865 F.A. Kekule intuited the shape of the ringlike benzene molecule by dreaming of a snake biting its tail. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle Of Genius] Reference
The design is a little bit unusual for a sofa, but there is plenty of room for two people on the comfortable seating surface surrounded by its generously upholstered ringlike back and armrests. From Wordnik.com. [Jacaranda Modern Sofa by Joaquim Tenreiro] Reference
To Jonathan Ive, who heads Apple's design studio, the new laptop isn't a knockoff of a mollusk, but a bubble, figuratively blown from the ringlike recessed plastic loop that works as the machine's handle. From Wordnik.com. [Apple?S Ibook: A Mac To Go] Reference
The lens is lens-shaped (of course) and is about a third of an inch in diameter: All around its rim is a ringlike suspensory ligament, which joins it to a portion of the choroid layer immediately behind the iris. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The ringlike lamp and metal overhang suggest an air of intense concentration. From Wordnik.com. [Wheels] Reference
Others again have stoutly maintained that its ringlike form bore mysterious reference to the Round Table. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
This elevation quickly takes the shape of a ringlike wave, which rolls off in every direction from its point of origin. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
The natural wormlike or ringlike contraction of the gut favors the passage of the contracted or paralyzed portion into that immediately behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
The team's findings also suggest that the machinery assembles by forming a ringlike filament that encircles receptors that need to be packaged in the MVBs. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
At the junction of the esophagus and stomach, there is a ringlike muscle, called the lower esophageal sphincter, closing the passage between the two organs. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
As the vapours in the olden day tended in toward the centre of our solar system, and the mass revolved, there is reason to believe that ringlike separations took place in it. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
The minute and curious marks so produced are known as haloes; for they surround, in ringlike forms, minute particles of included substances which contain radioactive elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
Note the circular mouth not supplied with jaws, the lack of paired fins, and the symmetric tail fin, with the column of cartilaginous, ringlike vertebrae running through it to the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Seen with a telescope of the better sort, the moon reveals itself to be in large part made up of circular depressions, each surrounded by a ringlike wall, with nearly level but rough places between. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
One team, charged with connecting the Facebook site to the rest of Menlo Park, devised an elevated ringlike walkway that links the campus to the Belle Haven neighborhood, a proposed transit station and the San Francisco Bay waterfront. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
As the process of concentration went on, this disk is supposed to have divided into ringlike masses, some approach to which we can discern in the existing nebulæ, which here and there among the farther fixed stars appear to be undergoing such stages of development toward solar systems. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
The sea itself did not come up in an even line but followed the irregularities of the shore, which the perspective of the picture increased still further, so that a ship actually at sea, half-hidden by the projecting works of the arsenal, seemed to be sailing across the middle of the town; women who were gathering shrimps among the rocks had the appearance, because they were surrounded by water and because of the depression which, after the ringlike barrier of rocks, brought the beach (on the side nearest the land) down to sea-level, of being in a marine grotto overhung by ships and waves, open yet unharmed in the path of a miraculously averted tide. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
At Luxor alone, Alexander’s name is carved in hieroglyphics and enclosed in a ringlike cartouche. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
For example, with starlike nodes you’re dealing with pigeons, ringlike nodes are chickens and turkeys, enlarged flanges with prenodal swelling are cuckoos. From Wordnik.com. [CRUEL AND UNUSUAL] Reference
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