ting

See also: Ting, tīng, tíng, tǐng, and tìng

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

ting

  1. Used to represent the sound of a small bell.
    • 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.

Noun

ting (plural tings)

  1. The sound made when a small bell is struck.
    • 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.
Translations

Verb

ting (third-person singular simple present tings, present participle tinging, simple past and past participle tinged)

  1. To make a ting sound.
    When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.
Translations

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Etymology 2

From Chinese 鼎 (dǐng). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Alternative forms

Noun

ting (plural tings)

  1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
  2. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

Etymology 3

Noun

ting (plural tings)

  1. (Caribbean, MLE) Alternative form of thing

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with modern Icelandic þing (of the same meaning), and fellow Scandinavian languages Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål ting, where the word's meaning has broadened to the sense of thing; any individual object (compare Icelandic hlutur). Also cognate with English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tˢeŋˀ]
  • Rhymes: -eŋ

Noun

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

  1. thing; an individual object

Inflection

Derived terms

Noun

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

  1. thing; a judicial or legislative assembly

Inflection

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

  1. parliament
  2. thing

Declension

Declension of ting
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ting tingið ting tingini
accusative ting tingið ting tingini
dative tingi tinginum tingum tingunum
genitive tings tingsins tinga tinganna

Derived terms

Mandarin

Romanization

ting

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tìng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English thing.

Noun

ting

  1. thing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)

  1. a thing

Derived terms

Noun

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)

  1. court, assembly

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪŋː/

Noun

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

  1. a thing

Derived terms

Noun

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

  1. court, assembly

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish þing, from Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ting n

  1. a thing, an individual object
    Synonym: sak
  2. a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

Declension

Declension of ting 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ting tinget ting tingen
Genitive tings tingets tings tingens

See also

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰiŋː/, /tʰɛɪ̯ŋː/
    Rhymes: -íŋɡ

Noun

ting n (definite tingjä)

  1. court session
  2. (indeclinable) thing
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þinga, from Proto-Germanic *þingōną. Confer tingt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²tʰiŋː/, /²tʰɛɪ̯ŋː/
    Rhymes: -ìŋɡ

Verb

ting (preterite tingä)

  1. to order (goods)
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