Thesaurus results for RUNG

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noun

ˈrəŋ

Definition of rung

as in level

the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement the greasy spoon restaurant was several rungs below the kind of establishment in which we usually dined

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as in baton

Scottish a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment the watchman usually carried a stout oak rung

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rung

2 of 2

verb

past participle of ring

as in chimed

to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates I didn't hear the doorbell ring

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Recent Examples of rung

Noun

Leadership should no longer be viewed as an additional burden or just the next rung on the career ladder. — Jalie Cohen, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Price is the easy rung One response by the travel industry has been to shave the single supplement. — Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Verb

Your smartphone receives a notification if anything suspicious is spotted, or if the doorbell is rung, obviously. — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The Nasdaq bell is rung by pressing a ceremonial electronic button at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, and often serves as a branding event for corporations, with executives invited to press the button. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for rung

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rung

Noun

At the end of September, leaders of several of the biggest AI companies went to the White House and signed an accord committing to internal risk controls, independent audits and board-level oversight of safety.

— Giorgos Tsetis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
But the posting of the media list signaled, at least on an organizational level, the trip was going ahead.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of level

Noun

Maintaining command-and-control links matters when troops rely on aerial sensors to gather information beyond their immediate positions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Also, the fact that planets in this arrangement slide along their orbit and swap positions means that their positions in that orbit change, which, in turn, changes the timing of the transits.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of position

Noun

Then pants, boots and cane and of course, the last is the cape.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026
Questions that have been proposed for removal deal with memory, fatigue, arthritis, difficulty walking and climbing stairs, as well as others about the use of hearing aids, canes, wheelchairs and scooters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of cane

Verb

Church bells tolled across the country when Leo’s charter flight landed at Paris’ Orly airport, and more than a million people are expected to turn out to see him.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
The bell outside Fire Station 10 in Parkville tolled 343 times.

— Renee Anderson, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2026