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rung
/ɹʌŋ/
noun 5adj 1name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
comfortable, enough, lowest, strong
VERB + RUNG
like, ought, see, seem, top, worked
RUNG + NOUN
bell, boss, curtain, doorbell, ladder, pig, society, teacher
PREP.
down, from, on, than, up
ADV.
already, newly, rarely
Definitions
noun
1
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
2
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
3
A position in a hierarchy.
the lowest rung of the society
“I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”
4
A floor timber in a ship.
5
One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
adj
1
Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
[…] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
name
1
A surname.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding st
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the lowest rung of the society
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“I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”
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[…] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
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A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
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I ran to school, but the bell had already rung.
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