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Definitions: Ling |
LingNoun1. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs. 2. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere. 3. Elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried. 4. American hakes. 5. Elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ling" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be lovely", "a bell", "a chime", "delicate". |
Date "ling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Synonyms: LingSynonyms: broom (n), burbot (n), cusk (n), eelpout (n), heather (n), ling ko (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ling |
| English words defined with "ling": genus Molva ♦ Haaf ♦ Ling honey, ling ko, Lingism ♦ Molva ♦ Nan Ling, Nan-ning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ling": Lapling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ling, one of the disadvantages of having magnetism is that you bring people out, people that otherwise would go unnoticed. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) I changed my mind call me the Claw of Ling Chou! (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra) | |
Lyrics | I got a little change in my pocket going jingle lingle ling (Keep Your Hands To Yourself; performing artist: Georgia Satellites) Tinga linga ling ling. (Can't Hang; performing artist: Xscape) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gu ling jing guai nu sha xing (1973) Shuang xi ling men (1970) Duo hun ling (1968) Jue dou e hu ling (1968) Yan ling dao (1968) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ling cod caught off Biorka Island, Sitka Sound.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Ling cod caught off Biorka Island, Sitka Sound.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Food technologist Alley Watada (left) and horticulturist Ling Qi, who is visiting from China, prepare shredded carrots and other fresh-cut produce for automated measurement of respiration rate and ethylene production. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | [Birth attendant with newborn] / UNICEF/WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Ling.. |
 | Harry Houdini and Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo, full-length portrait, standing, Brighton Beach, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Lyn Gibson and Wei Ling Chestnut are the widows of the two brave Capitol Police Officers who gave their lives to defend freedom's house. |
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| "Ling" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.60% of the time. "Ling" is used about 183 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 77.6% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 15.3% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.83% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.73% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 183 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ling | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,608 |
| Ling | Last name | 2,000 | 5,093 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "ling": Ling honey ♦ ling ko ♦ nan Ling. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ling": ling-and-bracken, Ling-bird, ling-ling, Ling-pao, Ling-temco-vought. | |
Ending with "ling": mei-ling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lisa ling | 414 | bai ling hay | 14 |
bai ling | 229 | ling lisa pic | 14 |
ling | 183 | goh ling su | 13 |
ding a ling | 54 | ding ling lyrics | 12 |
ling xiaoyu | 38 | cod ling recipe | 12 |
cyndi ling wang xin | 36 | ling li | 11 |
ling wang xin | 33 | ling lisa nude | 11 |
ling cod | 29 | ling lung | 9 |
ling chi | 27 | ling su | 9 |
ling shui | 22 | ling lisa view | 9 |
nude bai ling | 20 | ling skin care | 8 |
accounting education ling program | 20 | ding ling song | 8 |
hai ling yang | 20 | ling mei yung | 8 |
ling ling | 19 | chai ling | 8 |
fish ling | 19 | ling mei soong | 8 |
ling zhi | 18 | ling tang | 8 |
cai jolin ling yi | 17 | ling sue | 7 |
mai ling | 15 | mei ling | 7 |
ling lisa picture | 15 | bai ling picture | 7 |
ling yin | 14 | ling lucy | 7 |
barbara ling | 7 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Këlysh (calf, cub, henchman, puppy, whelp, youngling), I Vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سمك المياه العذبة, اللنغ سمك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Пирен (Heath, Heather), Гарига, Вид Треска. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 陵. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Druh Ryby (bullhead, darter, drum-fish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lange, hedelyng (heather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | leng (altered bread), struikheide (heather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | molva, kanerva (heather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Lingue (trade ling), Julienne (trade ling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lengfisch, Leng, Heidekraut (Heath, Heather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλούνα η κοινή (heather), ποντίκι (biceps, mouse, mouse (mice)), Εδώδιμοσ Ιχθύσ Του Βορρά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Gadóchal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | molva (ling(= fish), Mediterranean ling, Spanish ling), grecchia (heather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | freoagh (heather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inglay lingue, Urze Vulgar, Seqüência (chain, continuation, flush, order, prose, scale, sequel, sequence, series, track), maruca, donzela (damsel, linger, maid, maiden, may, virgin). (various references) Mihalţ De Mare. (various references) Морская Щука. (various references) langa (a ling). (various references) vres (heath, heather), manić (burbot, eel-pout). (various references) tachuela (tack, tin tack), pez de bacalao, maruca, juliana (dame's violet, mother-of-the-evening), guitarra (guitar), Brezo (briar, Heath, Heather), brecina (heather), barruenda, Abadejo (cod, pout). (various references) Ljung (Heather), Långa. (various references) Очерет (Reed), Морська Щука, Верес (Heath, Heather). (various references) cá tuyết h. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Calluna vulgaris Hull, Lota molva, Molva molva, Molva molva (Linnaeus). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ling": linga, lingam, lingams, lingas, lingcod, lingcods, linger, lingered, lingerer, lingerers, lingerie, lingeries, lingering, lingeringly, lingers, lingier, lingiest, lingo, lingoes, lingonberries, lingonberry, lings, lingua, linguae, lingual, lingually, linguals, linguine, linguines, linguini, linguinis, linguist, linguistic, linguistical, linguistically, linguistician, linguisticians, linguistics, linguists, lingy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ling": abseiling, addling, ailing, airmailing, ambling, aneling, angeling, angling, ankling, annealing, annulling, anticling, antifouling, antigambling, antismuggling, antiwhaling, anviling, anvilling, appalling, appareling, apparelling, appealing, argling, articling, assailing, assembling, assoiling, atheling, aureoling, automobiling, availing, babbling, backfilling, backhauling, backpedaling, backpedalling, baffling, bailing, baling, ballhandling, balling, bamboozling, bankrolling, bantling, barreling, barrelling, batfowling, battling, bawling, becrawling, becudgeling. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ling": ablings, anglings, anilingus, anilinguses, appallingly, appealingly, athelings, babblings, bafflingly, ballhandlings, bantlings, beguilingly, bilingual, bilingualism, bilingualisms, bilingually, bilinguals, billings, billingsgate, billingsgates, biofoulings, birlings, boardsailings, booksellings, bottlings, bowlings, brislings, bumblingly, bumblings, bundlings, bunglingly, bunglings, bustlingly, cagelings, callings, carlings, catlings, ceilinged, ceilings, changelings, chillingly, chitlings, chitterlings, chucklingly, clinged, clinger, clingers, clingier, clingiest, clinging, clings. (additional references) | |
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"Ling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gling, kling, laing, langy, leng, liang, lieng, lign, Ligni, lijn, Linga, Linge, lingu, lingy, linng, linug, liog, Lirg, livng, lng, lni, loing, lving, lyrg, Lysg, tling, xing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ling" (pronounced li"ng) |
| 3 | l i" ng | cling, fling, sling. |
| 2 | -i" ng | bring, ding, king, ping, ring, sing, spring, sting, string, swing, thing, ting, upswing, wing, wring, zing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: gin, lin, nil. | |
-2 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: algin, align, cling, fling, glint, ingle, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, lingy, lungi, lying, sling. | |
+2 letters: agnail, ailing, algins, aligns, baling, bluing, clings, clingy, cluing, dingle, doling, eloign, engild, filing, flings, flying, gainly, genial, gentil, gingal, glints, globin, gluing, glycin, goblin, haling, holing, idling, ingles, ingulf, isling, jingal, jingle, jingly, kingly, lacing, lading, laking, laming, lasing, laving, lawing, laying, lazing, leggin, legion, liangs, ligand, ligans, lignin, liking, liming, linage, lingam, lingas, linger, lingua, lining, living, logion, looing, loping, losing, loving, lowing, loxing, lubing, luging, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, lyings, lysing, malign, mingle, muling, niggle, nilgai, nilgau, ogling, oiling, paling, piling, plying, poling, puling, riling, ruling, signal, single, singly, slings, sluing, soling, tiglon, tiling, tingle, tingly, toling, voling, waling, wiling, wyling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6E 67 |
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