tingle
IPA: tˈɪŋgʌɫ
noun
- A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
- A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
- A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
- A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.
- (masonry) An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
- (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
- To fasten with a tingle; to tack.
- To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that needs to be watertight.
- (masonry) To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.
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Examples of "tingle" in Sentences
- I'm all a tingle with anticipation.
- Tingle is a supporting character at best.
- Once there was a sharp tingle of excitement,
- Everywhere else, the old tingle is going, if not gone.
- At the touch of spring the bud tingles in to sweat of virgin blushes.
- September 1st, 2009 4: 53 pm ET oh my god, the tingle is wearing off.
- Darryl flirts with Kelly, the sheer comedic potential of this relationship makes my brain tingle with delight.
- He squinted down the length of the blade at the sink, feeling the power within the sword tingle against his palm.
- - ill believe it when I can bring it home just now, -0/+1The only thing I've seen that's given me a tingle is the Microsoft Surface project.
- A second recalled the tingle he felt when his family showed him how to add cane alcohol to coffee as a folk medicine "remedio" at the tender age of seven.
- Nonetheless, the only passage in My Life with any erotic tingle is Clinton's recollection of watching, entranced, as his mother put on her makeup, brushed her hair, painted on her nonexistent eyebrows.
- David Jarrard, assistant director of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain, said: "At the moment the tingle is a localised problem around the Solent, but all stocks could be affected if it spread down the south coast or around to Essex."
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