ting

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĭng; 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.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “Aah, Miss Zoe!” proclaimed Raj, as she opened the door to his shop. The bell rang as she entered. TING.

ting (plural tings)

1. A high-pitched ringing sound, as made when a small bell is struck.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: 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-pitched 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 an attractive woman or a relation with one or engagements in criminal schemes or otherwise potentially disreputable connections).
   • 2023, “Sprinter”, performed by Central Cee x Dave:

     Inter, two man in Milan, heard one of my tings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags

• battri ting
• big man ting
• peng ting
• side 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”))
• lagting (“regional parliament”) (Lagtinget (“Faroese 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiŋ/, [ˈt̪iŋ]
• Hyphenation: ting

Onomatopoeic.

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

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

Borrowed from Hokkien 燈／灯 (teng, “light; lamp; lantern”).

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtĩŋ/
• Rhymes: -ĩŋ
• Hyphenation: ting

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tiŋ, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tˀiŋ.^[1][2]

ting (noun form tinga)

1. white

   Synonym: moroting

   upi'atinga ― egg white

2. light (pale in colour)

• ting is an irregular adjective. It absorbs the dummy pronoun i when used predicatively.

Colours in Old Tupi (layout · text)
Nouns	piranga	îuba	oby	obyeté	*umbyka	morotinga, tinga	una	tingaíba, pytanga／pyxanga
Adjectives	pirang	îub			*umbyk	moroting, ting	un	tingaíb, pytang／pyxang

ting (noun form tinga)

1. nauseous; causing nausea

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tinga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 477–478

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