The difference between Phone and Ring

Phone as a noun:

A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.

Phone as a verb (transitive):

To call (someone) on the telephone.

Phone as a noun (phonetics):

A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

Ring as a noun (physical):

A solid object in the shape of a circle. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc. A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration. A burner on a kitchen stove. In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve. An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite. A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.

Ring as a noun (physical):

A group of objects arranged in a circle. A circular group of people or objects. A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet. A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as .

Ring as a noun:

A piece of food in the shape of a ring.

Ring as a noun:

A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.

Ring as a noun:

An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.

Ring as a noun (chemistry):

A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.

Ring as a noun (geometry):

A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.

Ring as a noun (typography):

A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.

Ring as a noun (historical):

An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.

Ring as a noun (computing theory):

A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).

Ring as a noun (firearms):

Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.

Ring as a noun (cartomancy):

The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To surround or enclose.

Ring as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

To make an incision around; to girdle.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

Ring as a verb (falconry):

To rise in the air spirally.

Ring as a noun:

The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.

Ring as a noun (figuratively):

A pleasant or correct sound.

Ring as a noun (figuratively):

A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.

Ring as a noun (colloquial):

A telephone call.

Ring as a noun:

Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

Ring as a noun:

A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

Ring as a verb (intransitive):

Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

Ring as a verb (transitive):

To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

Ring as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

Ring as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

Ring as a verb (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand):

To telephone (someone).

Ring as a verb (intransitive):

to resound, reverberate, echo.

Ring as a verb (intransitive):

To produce music with bells.

Ring as a verb (dated):

To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Ring as a noun (algebra):

An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.

Ring as a noun (algebra):

An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.