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When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.
Stephen Elop

Meaning of "rung" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RUNG

Old English hrung; related to Old High German runga, Gothic hrugga.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RUNG

rung  [rʌŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RUNG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rung is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RUNG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rung in the English dictionary

The first definition of rung in the dictionary is one of the bars or rods that form the steps of a ladder. Other definition of rung is a crosspiece between the legs of a chair, etc. Rung is also a spoke on a ship's wheel or a handle projecting from the periphery.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RUNG

rundled
rundlet
rundown
Rundstedt
rune
Runeberg
runecraft
runed
runelike
runflat
rungless
runic
runkle
runless
runlet
runnable
runnel
runner
runner bean
runner-up

WORDS THAT END LIKE RUNG

Bandung
Belitung
bung
clung
dung
flung
hung
Jung
Kaohsiung
lung
mung
sprung
strung
stung
sung
swung
Taichung
unsung
with young
young

Synonyms and antonyms of rung in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RUNG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rung» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rung

Translation of «rung» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RUNG

Find out the translation of rung to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rung from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rung» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

梯级
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peldaño
570 millions of speakers

English

rung
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डंडा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدرجة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ступень
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

degrau
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মইয়ের ধাপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

échelon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anak tangga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sprosse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ラング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thanh ngang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏணிப்படி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पायमोजा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

basamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gradino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szczebel
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

щабель
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

treaptă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βαθμίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sport
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rung
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rung
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rung

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RUNG»

The term «rung» is very widely used and occupies the 17.598 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RUNG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rung» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rung» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rung

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10 QUOTES WITH «RUNG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rung.
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Douglas Brinkley
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
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Jay Carney
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.
3
William Collins
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
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Stephen Elop
When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.
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Taylor Hackford
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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Thomas Huxley
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
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Natsuo Kirino
It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
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Jim McKay
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
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Donny Osmond
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
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Larry J. Sabato
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RUNG»

Discover the use of rung in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rung and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms
The text is enhanced by Dorothea Lange's and Russell Lee's poignant photographs."
Stewart Emory Tolnay, 1999
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The Fifth Rung on Jacob's Ladder
Jacques Caubet, scientist and entrepreneur of worldwide repute, reconciles here Science and Faith with an amazing history of God's fingerprints disclosed by science through the ages.
Jacques Caubet, 2005
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The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty
This 2003 book examines the impact of economic rationalism on members of the poorest parts of Australian society.
Mark Peel, 2003
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Rung Ho (Webster's Portuguese Thesaurus Edition)
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Portuguese thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text.
Inc Icon Group International, Talbot Mundy, 2010
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Rung Ho [Facsimile Edition]
Talbot Mundy. government — according as you and I and certain others act when opportunity arrives! See yonder!" They had been seen, evidently, for horsemen — looking like black ants on the desert — seemed to have crawled from the ...
Talbot Mundy, 2007
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'Programming the Controllogix Programmable Automation ...
PROGRAMMING RUNG COMMENTS As many as 1,000 lines of text that explain what the rung does, how it operates, or maintenance and troubleshooting hints can be entered as a rung comment. The rung comment is an invaluable tool to ...
Gary Dunning, 2008
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A Dictionary of Oordoo and English
Rung 'jot in na. To become pale; to be grieved. Rnng qgr jiina, To change colour, to be afraid. Rung bigtirn'a, Changing the state or condition of any thing. Rung chtirhna. To be elated with liquor. Rung dehhna. To look at or examine the state,  ...
Joseph T. Thompson, 1838
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Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the ...
H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Introduction Prasat Phnom Rung is one of the most beautiful religious edifices of Khmer style in Thailand (Figure 1.1). It is situated on the top of Phnom Rung Hill, in Chalerm Phra Kiat District, Buriram ...
European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. International Conference, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Ian Glover, 2006
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Jains in the World : Religious Values and Ideology in India: ...
enough construed to include in it all of humanity, both Jain and non-Jain. The first rung on the ladder is that of wrong faith, and so includes all those souls who either have never heard the Jain teachings or else have consciously rejected them.
John E. Cort Professor of Religion Denison University, 2001
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Thailand
There are also some restaurants and simple food stalls at Phanom Rung. Getting There & Away Nang Rong's bus terminal (%0 4463 1517) is on the west side of town. See Phanom Rung Historical Park (following) for transport details.
China Williams, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RUNG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rung is used in the context of the following news items.
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Donna Marie Rung
MADISON- Donna M. Rung, age 74, passed away on Thursday, July 9, 2015 at Meriter Hospital after a brief and sudden illness. Donna was born in Baraboo on ... «Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3, Jul 15»
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OFPP's Anne Rung Issues Guidance on Reverse Auctions
Anne Rung, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, has issued new guidance on how agencies should use reverse auctions to drive price ... «ExecutiveGov, Jun 15»
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For lower-rung cops, there is no way up
Despite a change in the political guard, the plight of the lower-rung police personnel remains the same. A week ago, 23 senior inspectors, who were to be ... «Times of India, Jun 15»
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Global Screen Acquires Sci-fi Thriller 'Fang Rung' Starring 'The …
Munich-based sales company Global Screen has picked up Max Kestner's sci-fi thriller “Fang Rung,” which stars Danish actor Carsten Bjornlund (“The Legacy,” ... «Variety, Jun 15»
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Manager of notorious Glasgow hostel the Bellgrove admits it's 'the …
Manager Joe McKee admits the complex he has overseen for two decades is "the bottom rung of the ladder" but in an exclusive interview with the Evening Times ... «Glasgow Evening Times, May 15»
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YPS: 40pc of Malaysian Indians still at bottom rung of the income …
A substantial 40 per cent of the 2.6 million Indians in the country is said to be languishing at the bottom rung of the income ladder, according to Yayasan ... «Malay Mail Online, May 15»
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Centre planning second rung of defence along 202 kilometre long …
Jammu: The Centre is planning to create a second rung of defence along 202-kilometres long International Border (IB) in the region as many terrorists have ... «Zee News, Apr 15»
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Organizer of First Rung Men's Club is looking for a new facility as …
Terry Smith has established the First Rung Men's Club and hopes to continue the work next winter, but in another facility because the city is shutting down this ... «The Elkhart Truth, Mar 15»
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OFPP Chief Anne Rung Introduces Federal Procurement Rating …
Anne Rung, administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, has unveiled a set of rating tools for agencies and vendors to evaluate their experience ... «ExecutiveGov, Mar 15»
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Acquisition 360: What it is and how it helps ease procurement
Editor's Note: This post was first published on WhiteHouse.gov. Anne Rung is the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the White House ... «Federal Times, Mar 15»

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