ting

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

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɪŋ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

ting

Used to represent the sound of a small bell.
- 1839, 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)

A high-pitched ringing sound, as made when a small bell is struck.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, 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, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 36:
  At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.

Translations

The sound made when a small bell is struck

Finnish: kilahdus (fi), helähdys (fi)
Indonesian: ting (id)

Verb

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

To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.
- 1942 February, “A Railway Day in New England”, in Railway Magazine, page 38:
  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 that tinged continuously somewhere inside.

Translations

To make a ting sound

Finnish: kilahtaa (fi), helähtää

Etymology 2

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

Alternative forms

ding

Noun

ting (plural tings or ting)

An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Etymology 3

From thing.

Noun

ting (plural tings)

(Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to a attractive female or a relation with one or engagements in criminal schemes or otherwise potentially disreputable connections).

Derived terms

peng ting

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)

“ting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

GTIN, gnit

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þing n (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą, cognate with Icelandic þing (“assembly, parliament”), Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål ting (“thing”), English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

thing (an individual object)

Inflection

Declension of ting

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ting	tingen	ting	tingene
genitive	tings	tingens	tings	tingenes

Derived terms

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

Noun

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

assembly, parliament (a judicial or legislative assembly)

Inflection

Declension of ting

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ting	tinget	ting	tingene
genitive	tings	tingets	tings	tingenes

Derived terms

alting (“Icelandic parliament”)
folketing (“parliament”) (Folketinget (“Danish parliament”))
landsting (“regional parliament”) (Landstinget (“Greenlandic parliament”))
på tinge (“in parliament”)

Faroese

Etymology

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

Noun

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

parliament
thing

Declension

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

Hyponyms

fólkating
løgting
tjóðting
umboðsmannating

Related terms

tingfundur
tinglimur
tingmaður
tingræði

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɪŋ]
Hyphenation: ting

Noun

ting (first-person possessive tingku, second-person possessive tingmu, third-person possessive tingnya)

The sound made when a small bell is struck.

Etymology 2

From Sinitic 燈／灯 (Min Nan teng).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɪŋ]
Hyphenation: ting

Noun

ting (first-person possessive tingku, second-person possessive tingmu, third-person possessive tingnya)

lantern.
Synonyms: lentera, tanglung

Mandarin

Romanization

ting

Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
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

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)

a thing

Derived terms

småting
tingbok
tingfred
tinghus
tingkvinne
tinglag
tinglyse
tinglysing
tinglysning
tingmann
tingmøte
tingrepresentant
tingrett
tingrettsdommer
tingsete
tingsrett
tingstad
tingsted
tingstove
tingstue
tingsvitne
tingvoll

Noun

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

court, assembly

References

“ting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɪŋː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Doublet of dings and tingest. Akin to English thing.

Noun

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

a thing
an issue

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

allting
biting
bruksting
einskildting
filleting
forbruksting
fornting
ingenting
luksusting
mellomting
nytteting
småting
tingallmuge
tingbok
tingbolk
tingdag
tingen i seg sjølv
tingfred
tinghus
tingkvinne
tinglag
tingleg
tinglesa
tinglese
tinglysa
tinglyse
tinglysing
tingmann
tingmøte
tingrepresentant
tingrett
tingrettsdomar
tingrettsdommar
tingsete
tingsrett
tingstad
tingstove
tingstue
tingsvitne
tingvoll
tingålmuge
uting
utstillingsting

Related terms

tinga, tinge

Noun

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

court, assembly

Derived terms

allting
folketing
fylkesting
kråketing
lagting
odelsting
sameting
storting
Stortinget
tingfred
tingvoll
valting
verneting

Noun

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

a living thing
Synonym: kvikende

Derived terms

armodsting
uting

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ting

imperative of tinga

References

“ting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

gint, gnit

Old Tupi

Adjective

ting

white

References

NAVARRO, E. A. Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil. São Paulo. Global. 2013.

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

ting

ding

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

audio (file)

Noun

ting n

a thing, an individual object
Synonym: sak
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

Related terms

object

allting
ingenting
någonting
tingest
tinglig

assembly

allting
folketing
lagting
landsting
storting
tingsbord
tingsdomare
tingsfiskal
tingsfrid
tingshus
tingslag
tingsmerit
tingsmeriterad
tingsmeritering
tingsnotarie
tingsplats
tingspredikan
tingsrätt
tingssal
tingsställe
tingstjänstgöring

References

ting in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

tingting

Etymology

From English think.

Verb

ting

think

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)

court session
(indeclinable) thing

Derived terms

tingeli
tingt

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ting (preterite tingä)

to order (goods)

ting

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Interjection

Noun

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Verb

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

Etymology 3

Noun

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Derived terms

Noun

Inflection

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Hyponyms

Related terms

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

Usage notes

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

Noun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Noun

Derived terms

Noun

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

Derived terms

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

References

Anagrams

Old Tupi

Adjective

References

Romanian

Etymology

Interjection

Swedish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension