Definition of Rung

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Definition of Rung

Rung

of Ring

imp. & p. p. of Ring.

A floor timber in a ship.

One of the rounds of a ladder.

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

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

Related Definitions:

Also, Cart, Floor, From, Heavy, Imp, In, Ladder, Lantern, Of, One, Or, Projecting, Radial, Rim, Ring, Ship, Spar, Staff, Steering, The, Timber, Wheel

Rung Quotations

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
Jack Nicholson

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

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.
Thomas Huxley

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Henry Ellis

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
Julie Harris

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.
Jim McKay

Rung Translations

rung in Dutch is opstap, treeplank, tree, opstapje
rung in Finnish is porras
rung in French is marche
rung in Italian is suonato, gradino
rung in Swedish is ringt, ringde

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