ting

¹ American  

[ting] / tɪŋ /

verb (used with or without object)

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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Etymology

Origin of ting¹

1485–95; imitative; tang ²

Origin of ting²

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

Example Sentences

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

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

From Seattle Times

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

From Literature

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

Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the “ting” of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.

From Literature