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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A single light metallic sound, as of a small bell.
  2. v. To give forth a light metallic sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In China, a pavilion; a kiosk.
  2. To sound or ring tinklingly; tinkle.
  3. n. A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
  4. n. Same as thing.
  5. n. See sycee-silver.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The sound of small metallic bell
  2. n. ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
  3. v. To make a ting sound

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
  2. v. To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle.
  3. n. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
  2. v. make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'
  3. v. cause to make a ting

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

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  • “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.”

    Liberal Bureaucracy

  • “Unfortunately, in Creeting St Peter, life is not that simple.”

    British Blogs

  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “Our GP tutor (also known as that "ting") must be the worse GP tutor in the history of GP tutors!”

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  • “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.”

    Absent with leave

  • “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.”

    The Dark Forest

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