ting
IPA: tˈɪŋ
noun
- A high-pitched ringing sound, as made when a small bell is struck.
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to a attractive female or a relation with one or engagements in criminal schemes or otherwise potentially disreputable connections).
- A surname.
verb
- To make a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
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Examples of "ting" in Sentences
- I believe the colored tinge is intentional.
- Young birds have brown tinge to the plumage.
- The rest of the abdomen is yellow with a tinge of red.
- The rest of the wing is light brown with black tinges.
- The female is white in hue, with a tinge of yellow green.
- His canvases exhibit extremism with a hallucinatory tinge.
- Many attacks on him are exaggerated or tinged with humbug.
- Muted brass bring in the briefest tinge of nightclub jazz.
- Unfortunately, in Creeting St Peter, life is not that simple.
- Once I heard a "ting" - as if somebody was using the telephone.
- The abdomen, the base of which is swollen, is crimson with a violet tinge.
- A green tinge in the skin is sometimes associated with nausea and sickness.
- He remembered the 'ting' of the telephone that Jack said he had heard that afternoon.
- Our GP tutor (also known as that "ting") must be the worse GP tutor in the history of GP tutors!
- I heard now and then a sound that resembled the swift flight of a bird or the sudden "ting" of a telegraph-wire.
- In some experiments, the environment matters a great deal; in others, the setting is a psychologist’s lab.
- This entire ting is in the hands of lawyers and accountants, neither profession is peopled by those who have consciences.
- The novel I'm working on right now has "ting," I know it does, but it's driving me crazy and I'm having a ball with an easy reader on the side.
- Cycling in to town, I heard a faint 'ting' behind and beyond me; a bicycle bell on the opposite pavement, one that was the same sort as my own.
- The first signs of spring are beginning to appear in Creeting St Peter and, unfortunately, have received something of a frosty reception from Mother Nature.