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

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• Rhymes:-ɪŋ

Onomatopoeic.

ting

1. The sound of a smallbell being struck.
   • 1839,Charles Dickens, “The Private Theatricals”, inSketches 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 (pluraltings)

1. A high-pitched ringing sound, as made when a smallbell isstruck.
   • 1897,Bram Stoker,Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published1899, 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, inMurder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published2017, page36:

     At the same moment theting of a bell sounded sharply.

ting (third-person singular simple presenttings,present participletinging,simple past and past participletinged)

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

   When the microwaved food was ready, the belltinged.

   • 1942 February, “A Railway Day in New England”, inRailway Magazine, page38:

     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 thattinged continuously somewhere inside.

• ding
• ding dong
• tintinnabulation

From theWade–Giles romanization ofMandarin鼎(dǐng)Wade-Giles romanization:ting³.^[1]

• ding

ting (pluraltingsorting)

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

Fromthing.

ting (pluraltings)

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 mytings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags

• battri ting
• big man ting
• peng ting
• side ting

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

• GTIN,gnit

FromOld Norseþing n(“assembly, council, business”), fromProto-Germanic*þingą, cognate withIcelandicþing(“assembly, parliament”),Swedish,Norwegian Bokmålting(“thing”),Englishthing,Dutchding,GermanDing.

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

ting c (singular definitetingen,plural indefiniteting)

1. thing(an individual object)

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

ting n (singular definitetinget,plural indefiniteting)

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”)

FromOld Norseþing(“assembly, council, business”), fromProto-Germanic*þingą.

ting n (genitive singulartings, pluralting)

1. parliament
2. thing

• "ting" at Sprotin.fo

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

Onomatopoeic.

ting (pluralting-ting)

1. the sound made when a smallbell isstruck

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

ting (pluralting-ting)

1. (dialectal)Synonym oflentera(“lantern”)

• “ting” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Derived fromEnglishthing.

ting (pluralting demortingz)

1. thing
   • 2012,Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published2012,→ISBN,Matyu 22:26:

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

     The samething 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 gudtingz deh du.

     I can talk bout all the goodthings they do.

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

Derived fromEnglishthink.

ting

1. alternative orthography oftingk.

• ting at majstro.com

ting

1. Nonstandard spelling oftīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling oftíng.
3. Nonstandard spelling oftǐng.
4. Nonstandard spelling oftìng.

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

FromEnglishthing.

ting

1. thing

FromOld Norseþing(“assembly, council, business”), fromProto-Germanic*þingą.

ting m (definite singulartingen,indefinite pluralting,definite pluraltingaortingene)

1. athing

ting n (definite singulartinget,indefinite pluralting,definite pluraltingaortingene)

1. court,assembly

• “ting” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key):/tɪŋː/

FromOld Norseþing(“assembly, council, business”), fromProto-Germanic*þingą.Doublet ofdings andtingest. Akin toEnglishthing.

ting m (definite singulartingen,indefinite pluralting,definite pluraltinga)

1. athing
2. anissue

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

• tinga,tinge

ting n (definite singulartinget,indefinite pluralting,definite pluraltinga)

1. court,assembly

ting n (definite singulartinget,indefinite pluralting,definite pluraltinga)

1. aliving thing

   Synonym:kvikende

• armodsting
• uting

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

ting

1. imperative oftinga

• “ting” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• gint,gnit

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

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

ting (noun formtinga)

1. white

   Synonym:moroting

   upi'atinga ―eggwhite

2. light(pale in colour)

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

ting (noun formtinga)

1. nauseous; causingnausea

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tinga”, inDicionário 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,pages477–478

Onomatopoeic.

ting

1. ding

FromOld Swedishþing, fromOld Norseþing(“assembly, council, business”), fromProto-Germanic*þingą.

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ting n

1. athing, an individualobject

   Synonym:sak

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

• tinga

• ting inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• tingting

FromEnglishthink.

ting

1. think