RINGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ringed mean? 

• RINGED (adjective)
  The adjective RINGED has 3 senses:

1. shaped like a ring

2. having colored rings around the body

3. wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married

  Familiarity information: RINGED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RINGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaped like a ring

Synonyms:

annular; annulate; annulated; circinate; doughnut-shaped; ring-shaped; ringed

Similar:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having colored rings around the body

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married

Context example:

a ringed wife

Similar:

married (joined in matrimony)

 Context examples 

Its name derives from its odd shape, which resembles everyone’s favourite ringed planet seen edge-on.

(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)

Because WASP-39b has so much more water than our famously ringed neighbor, it must have formed differently.

(NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, NASA)

The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The robotic spacecraft briefly turned its gaze away from the ringed beauty of Saturn on April 11, 2014, to observe the distant planet, which is the seventh planet from the sun.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

It is associated with the development of refractory anemia with excess blasts, refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia, and refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia and ringed sideroblasts.

(Monosomy 5, NCI Thesaurus)

At first he cried softly to himself, then he cried loudly to the pitiless desolation that ringed him around; and for a long time after he was shaken by great dry sobs.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It is associated with the development of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia, refractory anemia with excess blasts, refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia, and refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia and ringed sideroblasts.

(Loss of Chromosome 7q, NCI Thesaurus)

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

On either hand gray walls and square grim keeps peeped out at every few miles from amid the forests while the few villages which they passed were all ringed round with rude walls, which spoke of the constant fear and sudden foray of a wild frontier land.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)