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• ting
  ting

  verb (used with or without object)

  to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.
• Ting
  Ting

  noun

  Samuel C(hao) C(hung) born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1976.

ting

¹ American  

[ting] / tɪŋ /

verb (used with or without object)

• tings,
  present (3rd person singular)
• tinged,
  past participle,  past
• tinging
  present participle

1. to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.

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noun

1. a tinging sound.

ting ² American  

[ting] / tɪŋ /

noun

1. thing.

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Ting ³ American  

[ting] / tɪŋ /

noun

1. Samuel C(hao) C(hung) born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1976.

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ting ¹ British  

/ tɪŋ /

noun

1. a high metallic sound such as that made by a small bell

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verb

1. to make or cause to make such a sound

Ting ² British  

/ tɪŋ /

noun

1. Samuel Chao Chung. born 1936, US physicist, who discovered the J/psi particle independently of Burton Richter, with whom he shared (1976) the Nobel prize for physics

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ting ³ British  

/ tɪŋ /

noun

1. (often capital) a variant spelling of thing 2

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

Participles

• tinging
  present
• tinged
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• ting
  simple
• tings
  simple
• have tinged
  perfect
• has tinged
  perfect
• am tinging
  progressive
• are tinging
  progressive
• is tinging
  progressive
• have been tinging
  perfect progressive
• has been tinging
  perfect progressive

Past

• tinged
  simple
• had tinged
  perfect
• was tinging
  progressive
• were tinging
  progressive
• had been tinging
  perfect progressive

Future

• will ting
  simple
• will have tinged
  perfect
• will be tinging
  progressive
• will have been tinging
  perfect progressive

Etymology

Origin of ting¹

1485–95; imitative; see tang ²

Origin of ting²

< Danish, Norwegian, Swedish; cognate with Icelandic thing thing ²

Example Sentences

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“I don’t know if the schedule is a good ting or a bad thing,’’ he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Still, many young people think ting ju feng is just a social media fad.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

I watched transfixed as the electrical alchemy of heat turned dullness into golden, the gentle tick of minutes sounding the bright ting of the alarm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2022

Mum I know my ting, I ain’t having a joke.

From Fox News ● Feb. 6, 2019

And other glasses ting along too, like a song.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Recent figures suggest economic growth could exceed expectations, supported by strong exports, early shipments ahead of potential trade disruptions, higher mining output and resilient domestic demand, UOB economists Julia Goh and Loke Siew Ting said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Ting Bai is a former Ph.D. student at UC Davis.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

While the method still needs further optimization, Ting said, "We may be able to determine whether someone has increased brain activity simply by assessing muscle activity after pulling a rug out from under you."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2026

Cathay Home's lawyer, Ting Geng from Geng and Associates said in a statement that the trademark application was dropped after evaluating the circumstances.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

Ting de jian in Mandarin means, one listens and hears.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Terrible tings goen happen if Jar Jar remains nothing more than the most annoying and unnecessary CGI character ever to please George Lucas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

Some tings to watch for when Alabama faces Miami before an expected full house at 73,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium:

From Fox News ● Sep. 2, 2021

"It was one of the scariest tings I've been through," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2021

These basic tings make all the difference in the world.”

From Forbes ● Oct. 8, 2014

A stray rock kicks out from Dr. Martin’s tire and tings Frank’s gleaming white beast of a truck.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

But when Good was killed, our anger was tinged with fear.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Direct attacks on a competitor are rare in advertising, she said, as are politically tinged messages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

These stories work because, as excessive as they are, they’re tinged with believability.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

The biggest event in American sports kicks off Sunday as the New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks at a Super Bowl tinged by controversy over Bad Bunny's half-time show.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

Bod looked up at the city, and was horrified: an emotion engulfed him that mingled repulsion and fear, disgust and loathing, all tinged with shock.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Then the graphic qualifies even that, adding "barely" before "coping," tinging the word a furious flush of pink that seethes into red.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

It was long believed that Sativa’s ailing pipelines were responsible for delivering manganese into the water supply and tinging the water brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019

Even the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead views its sad, shuffling working-class protagonists from a jaded distance, tinging its humor and affection with mockery and blood.

From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2018

Wherever the “Peter Pan” fantasy turns up, though, her artwork blooms into color, suffusing Wendy’s dreams of Neverland and tinging the elements of the real world that she’s charged with her hopeful imaginings.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

All those scraggy- looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger