ting

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verb (used with or without object)
  1. to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.

noun
  1. a tinging sound.

Origin of ting

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1485–95; imitative; see tang2

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Other definitions for ting (2 of 3)

ting2
[ ting ]

noun

Origin of ting

2
<Danish, Norwegian, Swedish; cognate with Icelandic thingthing2

Other definitions for Ting (3 of 3)

Ting
[ ting ]

noun
  1. Sam·u·el C(hao) C(hung) [sam-yoo-uhl chou-choong], /ˈsæm yu əl ˈtʃaʊ ˈtʃʊŋ/, born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1976.

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British Dictionary definitions for ting (1 of 3)

ting1

/ (tɪŋ) /


noun
  1. a high metallic sound such as that made by a small bell

verb
  1. to make or cause to make such a sound

Origin of ting

1
C15: of imitative origin

British Dictionary definitions for ting (2 of 3)

ting2

/ (tɪŋ) /


noun
  1. (often capital) a variant spelling of thing 2

British Dictionary definitions for Ting (3 of 3)

Ting

/ (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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