Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A single light metallic sound, as of a small bell.
- v. To give forth a light metallic sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In China, a pavilion; a kiosk.
- To sound or ring tinklingly; tinkle.
- n. A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
- n. Same as thing.
- n. See sycee-silver.
Wiktionary
- n. The sound of small metallic bell
- n. ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- v. To make a ting sound
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
- v. To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle.
- n. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
- v. make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'
- v. cause to make a ting
Etymologies
- From Middle English tingen, to cause to ring, of imitative origin.
Examples
“This entire ting is in the hands of lawyers and accountants, neither profession is peopled by those who have consciences.”
“The first signs of spring are beginning to appear in Creeting St Peter and, unfortunately, have received something of a frosty reception from Mother Nature.”
“Unfortunately, in Creeting St Peter, life is not that simple.”
“Once I heard a "ting" - as if somebody was using the telephone.”
The Circus of Adventure
“In some experiments, the environment matters a great deal; in others, the setting is a psychologist’s lab.”
“The novel I'm working on right now has "ting," I know it does, but it's driving me crazy and I'm having a ball with an easy reader on the side.”
“Our GP tutor (also known as that "ting") must be the worse GP tutor in the history of GP tutors!”
“Cycling in to town, I heard a faint 'ting' behind and beyond me; a bicycle bell on the opposite pavement, one that was the same sort as my own.”
“He remembered the 'ting' of the telephone that Jack said he had heard that afternoon.”
The Circus of Adventure
“I heard now and then a sound that resembled the swift flight of a bird or the sudden "ting" of a telegraph-wire.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ting’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 79 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
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[Open] Infrequentative
Non-frequentative verbs which also have a frequentative form (which you may add to the list “Frequentative”, if you like)
Examples include bob (bobble), busk (bustle), dab (dabble), ho...hove, stut, wag, dab, dart, spouse, sault, prate, swag, visé, cater, nose and 33 more...

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