Ting

Definition: Ting

Ting

Noun

1. A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell.

Verb

1. Cause to make a ting.

2. Go "ting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Synonym: Ting

Crosswords: Ting

Danish (article, object, thing, things), Faeroese (article, congress, convention, object, parliament, thing), Norwegian (article, object, thing), Swedish (matter, object, session at court, thing).

You've got me in the mood to use this ting, so think of something, or by God, I'll use it on you (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman)

Frihet är det bästa ting (1974)

Manden der tænkte ting (1969)

Ting bu dao de shuo hua (1965)

Jia ting wen ti (1964)

Wen ting yu huo hai jian chou (1961)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bureaucratic Reform in Provincial China: Ting Jih-Ch'Ang in Restoration Kiangsu, 1867-1870 (reference)

• Kim and Ting (reference)

• Painting Paradise: The Art of Ting Shao Kuang (reference)

• Ting! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mo Teng Chia Ting (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Knowing Me: Ting Ling (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Real Ting (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Capture of Lu Ting Bridge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Sweden

The Swedish parliament (Riksdag) stems from the ting (tribal courts) and the election of kings in the Viking age. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

Deputy Home Minister Ong Ka Ting told Parliament in 1999 that the Government had completed a review of prison rules and made amendments that would improve the management of prisoners, although no such amendments have been made public. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "ting": ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling, Ting-kok, ting-ting.

Ending with "ting": concentra-ting, kuo-ting, ting-ting.

Bulgarian 

звън (bell, jingle, plunk, ring), дзънкане (tinkle), дзънкам, дзън. (various references)

German

klingeln (bells, clincher, give a ring, go, jingle, ping, pinging, pink, ring, ring the bell, ringing, tinkle, to jingle, to ring, to ring the bell). (various references)

Greek 

κωδώνισμα (ding, ring, tinkle, tinkling), κωδωνίζω (ring, tinkle), ηχώ (blare, chime, clink, echo, peal, resonance, resound, reverberate, ring, sound). (various references)

Italian

tintinnio (clink, jingle, ping, rattle, tinkle), tintinnare (clink, jingle, ping, rattle, ring, tinkle), sonare il campanello (jingle, ring, tinkle, tringing). (various references)

Manx

clingal (ring out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingtay.(various references)

Swedish

pinglande (jingle, tingle, tinkle, tinkling), pingla (bell, jingle, tingle, tinkle). (various references)

Turkish

tıngırdatmak (knock out, make tinkle, strum, thrum), tıngırdamak (clang, clink, jangle, rattle, tinkle, twang), tın, çan sesi (bells, dingdong, ding-dong, gong, jingle, ring, ringing, tintinnabulation, toll), çınlatmak (clink, ding, ring, tinkle), çınlamak (buzz, clang, din, jingle, resonate, resound, ring out, sing, tingle, tinkle), çınlama (bells, clang, clangor, clangour, clank, jingle, ringing, singing), çın (clink). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng leng keng (tang). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ting": tinge, tinged, tingeing, tinges, tinging, tingle, tingled, tingler, tinglers, tingles, tinglier, tingliest, tingling, tinglingly, tingly, tings. (additional references)

Words ending with "ting": abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, ablating, abnegating, abominating, aborting, abreacting, abrogating, absenting, absquatulating, abstracting, abstricting, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, acclimating, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accreting, acculturating, accumulating, acerbating, acetylating, acidulating, acierating, acquainting, acquitting, acting, activating, actuating, acylating, adapting, addicting, adducting, adhibiting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, adulating, adulterating, adumbrating, advecting. (additional references)

Words containing "ting": acceleratingly, acceptingly, acceptingness, acceptingnesses, accommodatingly, accountings, actings, affectingly, agentings, antihuntings, antings, arrestingly, atingle, backbitings, bastings, battings, bearbaitings, beastings, beatings, beestings, befittingly, beltings, bitingly, bittings, blastings, blockbustings, bloodlettings, boatings, bullbaitings, bullfightings, buntings, calculatingly, carpetings, castings, coastings, coatings, cockfightings, comfortingly, commiseratingly, conflictingly, consentingly, contingence, contingences, contingencies, contingency, contingent, contingently, contingents, contradistinguish, contradistinguished, contradistinguishes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: itang, itdg, tangt, tegn, teign, teing, teng, Tengku, tieng, tign, tiing, t'ing, Tinga, Tingmo, tingy, tinr, Tiong, tling, toing, tring, Tsing, twing, tyg, tyrg, xing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gin, git, nit, tin.

-2 letters: in, it, ti.

+1 letter: giant, glint, ingot, night, sting, thing, tigon, tinge, tings, tying.

+2 letters: acting, anting, bating, biting, citing, coting, dating, doting, eating, engirt, fating, feting, gainst, gating, gentil, giants, gitano, gittin, glints, gratin, gunite, hating, ignite, ingate, ingest, ingots, kiting, knight, luting, mating, meting, muting, nidget, nights, nighty, noting, opting, outing, pignut, rating, sating, signet, siting, stingo, stings, stingy, string, stying, taking, taming, taping, taring, tawing, taxing, teeing, tewing, things, tiding, tieing, tiglon, tigons, tiling, timing, tinged, tinges, tingle, tingly, tining, tiring, toeing, toking, toling, toning, toping, toting, towing, toying, trigon, truing, trying, tsking, tubing, tuning, twinge, tyning, typing, tyring, ungirt, voting, witing, wyting.