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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. v. To make a ting sound
  3. n. ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
  4. n. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
  2. v. rare 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. Chinese: 鼎, pinyin: dǐng. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Middle English tingen, to cause to ring, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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.”

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  • “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!”

    j-gan Diary Entry

  • “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.”

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. tinkling
  1. tinkle

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. sound
  1. go

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. uation
  1. tling
  1. brass band

rhymes (45)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Beijing
  2. Bing
  3. Chongqing
  4. Ging
  5. Jing
  6. King
  7. Ming
  8. Peking
  9. Ping
  1. Qing
  2. Ring
  3. Singh
  4. Thing
  5. bing
  6. bring
  7. ching
  8. cling
  9. ding
  1. fling
  2. ging
  3. hing
  4. ing
  5. jing
  6. king
  7. ling
  8. ming
  9. ng
  1. ping
  2. ring
  3. ringe
  4. schwing
  5. shing
  6. sing
  7. sling
  8. spring
  9. sting
  1. string
  2. swing
  3. thing
  4. unring
  5. upswing
  6. wing
  7. wring
  8. xing
  9. zing

reverse dictionary (4)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fên-ting
  1. thing
  1. ting-a-ling
  1. ting

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