ting

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Onomatopoeic.

ting

1. Used to represent the sound of a small bell.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, “The Private Theatricals”, in Sketches by Boz:

     Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Everybody sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.

ting (plural tings)

1. A high-pitched ringing sound, as made when a small bell is struck.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiii. 307:

     Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 36:

     At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.

ting (third-person singular simple present tings, present participle tinging, simple past and past participle tinged)

1. To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck.

   When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.

   • 1942 February, “A Railway Day in New England”, in Railway Magazine, page 38:

     It was built by Alco—the American Locomotive Company—and looked fairly new; it was carried on two 4-wheel bogies, and had a funny bell that tinged continuously somewhere inside.

• ding
• ding dong
• tintinnabulation

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng) Wade-Giles romanization: ting³.[1]

• ding

ting (plural tings or ting)

1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

From thing.

ting (plural tings)

1. (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to a attractive female or a relation with one or engagements in criminal schemes or otherwise potentially disreputable connections).

• peng ting

• “ting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• GTIN, gnit

From Old Norse þing n (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą, cognate with Icelandic þing (“assembly, parliament”), Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål ting (“thing”), English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

• IPA^(key): /tenˀɡ/, [ˈtˢeŋˀ]
• Rhymes: -eŋ

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing (an individual object)

• alting (“everything”)
• ingenting (“nothing”)
• tingslig (“regarding things”)

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

1. assembly, parliament (a judicial or legislative assembly)

• alting (“Icelandic parliament”)
• folketing (“parliament”) (Folketinget (“Danish parliament”))
• landsting (“regional parliament”) (Landstinget (“Greenlandic parliament”))
• på tinge (“in parliament”)

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

1. parliament
2. thing

• "ting" at Sprotin.fo

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ting

ting (first-person possessive tingku, second-person possessive tingmu, third-person possessive tingnya)

1. The sound made when a small bell is struck.

From Sinitic 燈／灯 (Min Nan teng).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ting

ting (first-person possessive tingku, second-person possessive tingmu, third-person possessive tingnya)

1. lantern.

   Synonyms: lentera, tanglung

• “ting” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

ting

1. Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tìng.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From English thing.

ting

1. thing

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)

1. a thing

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)

1. court, assembly

• “ting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋː/

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Doublet of dings and tingest. Akin to English thing.

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. a thing
2. an issue

• (an object): gjenstand, greie, sak
• (an issue): sak

• tinga, tinge

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. court, assembly

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. a living thing

   Synonym: kvikende

• armodsting
• uting

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ting

1. imperative of tinga

• “ting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• gint, gnit

ting

1. white

• NAVARRO, E. A. Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil. São Paulo. Global. 2013.

Onomatopoeic.

ting

1. ding

From Old Swedish þing, from Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

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ting n

1. a thing, an individual object

   Synonym: sak

2. a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

• tinga

• ting in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• tingting

From English think.

ting

1. think