ting

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Onomatopoeic.

ting

1. Used to represent the sound of a small bell.
   • Charles Dickens, The Private Theatricals (in Sketches by Boz)

     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.

ting (plural tings)

1. The sound made when a small bell is struck.
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 36:

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

ting (third-person singular simple present tings, present participle tinging, simple past and past participle tinged)

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

   When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.

• ding
• ding dong
• tintinnabulation

From Chinese 鼎 (dǐng). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• ding

ting (plural tings or tings)

1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
2. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

ting (plural tings)

1. (Caribbean, MLE) Alternative form of thing

• peng ting

• GTIN, gnit

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with modern Icelandic þing (of the same meaning), and fellow Scandinavian languages Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål ting, where the word's meaning has broadened to the sense of thing; any individual object (compare Icelandic hlutur). Also cognate with English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

• IPA^(key): [tˢeŋˀ]
• Rhymes: -eŋ

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing; an individual object

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing; a judicial or legislative assembly

• Folketinget

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

1. parliament
2. thing

ting

1. Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tìng.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From English thing.

ting

1. thing

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)

1. a thing

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)

1. court, assembly

• “ting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Akin to English thing.

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋː/

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. a thing

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. court, assembly

• “ting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish þing, from Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

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ting n

1. a thing, an individual object

   Synonym: sak

2. a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

• tinga

• ting in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)----

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

• IPA^(key): /tʰiŋː/, /tʰɛɪ̯ŋː/

  Rhymes: -íŋɡ

ting n (definite tingjä)

1. court session
2. (indeclinable) thing

• tingeli
• tingt

From Old Norse þinga, from Proto-Germanic *þingōną. Confer tingt.

• IPA^(key): /²tʰiŋː/, /²tʰɛɪ̯ŋː/

  Rhymes: -ìŋɡ

ting (preterite tingä)

1. to order (goods)