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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rung
I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rung of a ladder (=the part you put your foot on)
▪ The first rung of the ladder was broken.
the bottom rung (=of a ladder)
▪ I put my foot on the bottom rung and started to climb.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cambridge School had a bell which was never rung, which had never been rung.
▪ Nadine had rung Matthew several times recently-and always at school-to say that Rory was playing truant.
▪ Shortly after the rising bell had been rung, Ethel and Mildred were waiting anxiously outside Miss Hardbroom's door.
▪ That was what had rung the bell.
▪ There had been no more calls since the informant had rung with the news of the cocaine shipment.
▪ Wally had rung to say that it was black tie, and he'd forgotten to tell Debbie.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bottom
▪ Once Romanov had reached the bottom rung of the fire escape, he ran to a passing tram.
▪ It became imperative that he take hold of the bottom rung of the sinuous ladder, which he did.
low
▪ Should women technicians once again be relegated to a lower rung of the ladder?
▪ And so I decided to climb up the ladder of City College, starting at the lowest rung.
▪ On the lower rungs of the ladder of middle-class aspiration, the answer is easy.
▪ In general, they say, it is those at the lowest rungs of the ladder that are most upset.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Community colleges are the bottom rung of the state's higher education ladder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Rung by rung, she crept up the ladder.
▪ And so I decided to climb up the ladder of City College, starting at the lowest rung.
▪ As companies view for ever-larger market shares, competition seeps down to the lowliest rung on the ladder.
▪ He wagged his muddy boots, feeling uncertainly for each rung of the ladder: he had clearly been drinking already.
▪ I stand up and begin to look for the invisible rung.
▪ She eased herself down a few rungs, praying it wouldn't collapse under her.
▪ The rungs were steel knives, blades up.
▪ This is the bottom of the labor movement, eight rungs below Lynn Williams, nine rungs below Kleiman or Connerton.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rung

Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung (r[u^]ng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. [root]19.]

  1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

  2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

    The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal.
    --Shak.

  3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

    To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.

    To ring the changes upon. See under Change.

    To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new.
    --Tennyson.

    To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger.
    --Sir W. Scott.

Rung

Rung \Rung\, imp. & p. p. of Ring.

Rung

Rung \Rung\, n. [OE. ronge, AS. hrung, a staff, rod, pole; akin to G. runge a short, thick piece of iron or wood, OD. ronghe a prop, support, Icel. r["o]ng a rib in a ship, Goth. Hrugga a staff.]

  1. (Shipbuilding) A floor timber in a ship.

  2. One of the rounds of a ladder.

  3. One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

  4. (Mach.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rung

Old English hrung "rod, bar," from Proto-Germanic *khrungo (cognates: Middle Low German runge, Old High German runga "stake, stud, stave," German Runge "stake, stud, stave," Middle Dutch ronghe, Dutch rong "rung," Gothic hrugga "staff"), of unknown origin with no connections outside Germanic. Sense in English narrowed to "round or stave of a ladder" (first attested late 13c.), but usage of cognate words remains more general in other Germanic languages.\n\nThis [rungs] has generally been considered as a mere corruption of rounds; and people of education use only this latter word.

[John Pickering, "A Vocabulary or Collection of Words and Phrases which have been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]

Wiktionary
rung

Etymology 1 n. 1 A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. 2 A crosspiece between legs of a chair. 3 (context nautical dated English) A floor timber in a ship. 4 (context dated English) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff. 5 (context engineering dated English) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel. 6 (context engineering dated English) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (past participle of ring English) ''(only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)'' 2 (context chiefly dialectal English) (en-simple past of: ring)

WordNet
rung
  1. n. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: round, stave]

  2. one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder [syn: rundle, spoke]

rung

See ring

ring
  1. v. sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang" [syn: peal]

  2. ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" [syn: resound, echo, reverberate]

  3. make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church" [syn: knell]

  4. be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village" [syn: surround, environ, encircle, circle, round]

  5. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call up, phone]

  6. attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns" [syn: band]

  7. [also: rung, rang]

ring
  1. n. a characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity"

  2. a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: halo, annulus, anulus, doughnut, anchor ring]

  3. a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" [syn: hoop]

  4. (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop [syn: closed chain] [ant: open chain]

  5. an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, mob]

  6. the sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe [syn: ringing, tintinnabulation]

  7. a square platform marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle

  8. jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" [syn: band]

  9. a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) [syn: band]

  10. [also: rung, rang]

Wikipedia
Rung (album)

Rung is an album released by the Pakistani pop singer, Hadiqa Kiyani. It was released in 2002 and gained much popularity. Songs such as "Jogi Bun Kay Aa", "Ranjhan", "Dohlan" and "Yaad Sajan" went on to become some of the most successful songs in the industry.

Rung

Rung may refer to:

  • Rung (band), a Pakistan band
  • Rung (album), an album by Hadiqa Kiyani
  • Rung languages, a proposed group of Tibeto-Burman languages
  • Rung, an ethnic group of people inhabiting the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, India and Darchula district, Nepal
  • Rung (tele-serial), a Kokborok drama tele-serial
  • Rung, a step of a ladder
  • Rung, a card game in Pakistan
  • Henrik Rung (1807–1871), a Danish composer

Usage examples of "rung".

And so we descended to a new rung of hell, the Maternal Ageist Society.

He drew in several deep breaths, then, clasping Alise firmly, placed his hands and feet on the rungs of the ladder.

Pewt he said that old Hobbs come down to his house today and told his father he rung his doorbell 2 times and Pewt said he dident and his father said he dident beleeve him and was going to lick time out of him if he had and he did it.

Downward bound, with the ancient rungs wobbling in their sockets as I put my weight on them, I began to receive clairvoyant images from the long abandoned mine.

And so, as the descension took place, so must the ascension, and man is climbing back on the ladder of evolvement rung by rung.

At the eightieth rung he reached for the free end of the ladder and reeled it in after hooking an arm about and through a rung, leaving both hands free.

But it had been a terrible shock to them when the superintendent at Friary Road had rung them up to inquire if Sergeant Chandler were ill.

Toorkild and Gobby smiled at each other and kept an indulgent silence as the brothers, between them, related how the Sterkarms had been ready for the Grannams, how the beacons had been fired and the bells rung.

I hooked the hoist on to a head-high rung of the ladder, pulled the lower block until it hung just above the twister, picked up the grommet, and moved round to the tail of the weapon.

I could let go the ladder while I slackened the rope without any fear of its falling over, as it had caught to the parapet by the third rung.

The heet dropped the last few rungs to touch down gracefully on the padded floor.

But this morning, in the cold light of day, he had had to face realityand herand so he had rung David and asked David to make sure that she came to see him.

He crouched, holding tightly to the Errin, and sprang to the top of the ladder, perhaps 12 feet, sailing over the top rung and landing lightly beside the woman.

The first kilted Highlanders were already scrambling up the rungs, but then a man was hit by a bullet from the flanking bastion and he stopped, clung to the ladder, then slowly toppled sideways.

Bill he said he wood leeve his door open jest a little and old printer Smith he said he wood leeve his open jest a little two so he cood gump out and lam time out of the feller whitch rung his bell.