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ting

interjectionnounverbnounnounattested in dialogue

  • United States//tɪŋ//

Representing a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.

interjection

  1. 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.

    Lonnie shook the Sacajaweas from his hand and let them land noisily on the glass coffee table—ting ting ting—oblivious or indifferent or likely hostile to Ig so near to nap.

    “Aah, Miss Zoe!” proclaimed Raj, as she opened the door to his shop. The bell rang as she entered. TING.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

noun

  1. 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.

    At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.

    When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.

    It was built by Alco—the American Locomotive Company—and looked fairly new; it was carried on two 4-wheel bogies, and had a funny bell that tinged continuously somewhere inside.

noun

  1. 1

    An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng) Wade-Giles romanization: ting³.

noun

  1. 1

    thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections).

    Inter, two man in Milan, heard one of my tings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags

Etymology

From thing.

Forms

plural
tings
past tense
tinged
past participle
tinged
present participle
tinging
third person singular
tings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).