ting

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĭng; IPA^(key): /tɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Onomatopoeic.

ting

1. Representing a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
   • 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.

   • 2015, Claire Vaye Watkins, “Book One”, in Gold Fame Citrus, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 74:

     Lonnie shook the Sacajaweas from his hand and let them land noisily on the glass coffee table—ting ting ting—oblivious or indifferent or likely hostile to Ig so near to nap.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Burt’s Burgers”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 135:

     “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 sharp sound like a small bell being 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 engaged in criminal schemes or 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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtiŋ/ [ˈt̪iŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: ting

Onomatopoeic.

ting (plural ting-ting)

1. the sound made when a small bell is struck

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

ting (plural ting-ting)

1. (dialectal) synonym of lentera (“lantern”)

• “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.

Derived from English thing.

ting (plural ting dem or tingz)

1. thing
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 22:26:

     Di sed ting apm tu di sekan breda, di tord wan, an aal a dem dong tu breda nomba sevn.

     The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.

   • 2014, Larry Change, Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language‎^[5]:

     […] mi kiah tel nof gud tingz deh du.

     I can talk bout all the good things they do.

2. (endearing) a woman, especially one familiar to the speaker.^[1]

Derived from English think.

ting

1. alternative orthography of tingk.

• ting at majstro.com

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.

Colors in Old Tupi (layout · text)
Nouns	piranga	îuba, tagûá (LGA)	oby	obyeté	*umbyka	morotinga, tinga	una, pyxuna (LGA)	tingaíba, pytanga / pyxanga
Adjectives	pirang	îub, tagûá (LGA)			*umbyk	moroting, ting	un, pyxun (LGA)	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.

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋ/

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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