ting

Etymology

Definitions

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.
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

   2. 5

      thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal…

      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
   3. 6

      A surname.

The neighborhood