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Ting
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- 1 Representing a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
"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."
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
"Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging."
- 2 An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- 3 thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections). Multicultural-London-English
"Inter, two man in Milan, heard one of my tings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags"
- 4 a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell wordnet
- 1 To make a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
"When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged."
- 2 make a light, metallic sound; go ‘ting’ wordnet
- 3 cause to make a ting wordnet
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Onomatopoeic.
Onomatopoeic.
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng) Wade-Giles romanization: ting³.
From thing.
From Hokkien 丁 (Teng) or Eastern Min 陳／陈 (Dìng).
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