ring up the curtain
拉开帷幕,拉起帷幕,拉上帷幕,拉开序幕
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Definitions
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- : a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- : anything having the form of such a band: a napkin ring;a smoke ring.
- : a circular or surrounding line or mark: dark rings around the eyes.
- : a circular course: to dance in a ring.
- : a number of people or things situated in a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement: a ring of stones;a ring of hills.
- : the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim.
- : an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition: a circus ring.
- : a bullring.
- : an enclosure in which boxing and wrestling matches take place, usually consisting of a square, canvas-covered platform with surrounding ropes that are supported at each corner by posts.
- : the sport of boxing; prizefighting: the heyday of the ring.
- : an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets.
- : a group of people cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law: a ring of dope smugglers.
- : a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course.
- : Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles.
- : annual ring.
- : a circle of bark cut from around a tree.
- : Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form.Compare chain.
- : Architecture. rowlock.
- : a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured.
- : Also called spinning ring. Textiles. a circular track of highly polished steel on which the traveler moves and which imparts twists to the yarn by variations in its vertical movement.
- : Also called ring gauge . a unit of measurement of the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch.
- : Automotive, Machinery. piston ring.
- : Mathematics. a set that is closed under the operations of addition and multiplication and that is an Abelian group with respect to addition and an associative semigroup with respect to multiplication and in which the distributive laws relating the two operations hold.
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ringed, ring·ing.
- : to surround with a ring; encircle: The lake is ringed with forest and farmland.
- : to form into a ring.
- : to insert a ring through the nose of.
- : to hem in by riding or circling about them: The cowboys ringed the cattle they would be driving to market.
- : to girdle.
- : to encircle with a ring, horseshoe, etc.
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ringed, ring·ing.
- : to form a ring or rings.
- : to move in a ring or a constantly curving course: The road rings around the mountain.
Phrases
- ring a bell
- ring down the curtain on
- ring false
- ring one's chimes
- ringside seat
- ring the changes
- ring true
- ring up
- brass ring
- give someone a ring
- have a familiar ring
- run rings around
- three-ring circus
- throw one's hat in the ring
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The aurora ring is more than 20,000 miles wide, about three times the diameter of Earth.
The very ring on my finger reflects how this country can change.
Where those three flames meet, a stoichiometric flame forms, making a bright blue ring.
Subtracting the one stack with no rings on it meant there were 31 unique stacks.
The stomach’s clues, such as the twig growth rings, suggest the dino’s last supper took place at the start of the growing season.
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.
Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new one.
What was this human being fighting for everywhere but inside a ring?
They opened for acts like Elliott Smith, Sloan, and Promise Ring.
When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.
I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.
I desired the captain would please to accept this ring in return of his civilities, which he absolutely refused.
Whoever succeeded in getting the ring on his stick won the game, and carried the prize home as a sign of victory.
I remember feeling in his pocket for the ring, and as I did so, I felt a hand grasp mine for a moment.