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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.

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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

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

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

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

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.
Dave Winfield

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

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Taylor Hackford

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

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.
Donny Osmond

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.
Jay Carney

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
William Collins

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
Larry J. Sabato

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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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