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[[File:Egyptian_gold_ring.jpg|thumb|Egyptian gold ring featuring ducks and bearing the name of Ramesses IV.]]A '''ring''' is a round band, usually in metal, worn as an ornamental jewellery around the finger, or sometimes the toe. | [[File:Egyptian_gold_ring.jpg|thumb|Egyptian gold ring featuring ducks and bearing the name of Ramesses IV.]]A '''ring''' is a round band, usually in metal, worn as an ornamental jewellery around the finger, or sometimes the toe. | ||
Strictly speaking a normal ring is a finger ring. | |||
Other types of rings worn as ornaments are earrings, bracelets for the wrist, armlets or arm rings, toe rings and torc or neck rings, but except perhaps for toe rings, the plain term "ring" is not normally used to refer to these. | |||
Rings are most often made of metal but can be of almost any material: metal, plastic, stone, wood, bone, glass, or gemstone. | Rings are most often made of metal but can be of almost any material: metal, plastic, stone, wood, bone, glass, or gemstone. | ||
They may be set with a stone or stones, often a gemstone such as diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald. | They may be set with a stone or stones, often a gemstone such as diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald. | ||
== In the News == | |||
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File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring (AI)|[[Green Ring (AI)|Green Ring]] interviewed by [[Dick Cavett]]. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
* [[Green Ring (AI)]] | |||
* [[The Green Ring Show]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Draupnir (nonfiction)]] - a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself. | |||
* [[Power ring (nonfiction)]] | * [[Power ring (nonfiction)]] | ||
* [[Torus (nonfiction)]] | |||
== External links | == External links | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(jewellery) Ring (jewellry)] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(jewellery) Ring (jewellry)] @ Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Rings (nonfiction)]] | |||
Latest revision as of 03:07, 2 August 2021
A ring is a round band, usually in metal, worn as an ornamental jewellery around the finger, or sometimes the toe.
Strictly speaking a normal ring is a finger ring.
Other types of rings worn as ornaments are earrings, bracelets for the wrist, armlets or arm rings, toe rings and torc or neck rings, but except perhaps for toe rings, the plain term "ring" is not normally used to refer to these.
Rings are most often made of metal but can be of almost any material: metal, plastic, stone, wood, bone, glass, or gemstone.
They may be set with a stone or stones, often a gemstone such as diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald.
In the News
Green Ring interviewed by Dick Cavett.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Draupnir (nonfiction) - a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself.
- Power ring (nonfiction)
- Torus (nonfiction)
== External links
- Ring (jewellry) @ Wikipedia