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ting  (tng)
n.
A single light metallic sound, as of a small bell.
intr.v. tinged (tngd), ting·ing, tings
To give forth a light metallic sound.

[From Middle English tingen, to cause to ring, of imitative origin.]

Ting [tɪŋ]
n
(Biographies / Ting, Samuel Chao Chung (1936 M, US, SCIENCE: physicist) 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

ting1
n
a high metallic sound such as that made by a small bell
vb
to make or cause to make such a sound
[of imitative origin]

ting2
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (often capital) a variant spelling of thing2
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ting - a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
Verb1.ting - cause to make a ting
sound - cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
2.ting - make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'
sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
Translations
ting
vt bellläuten; to ting the bellklingeln; he tinged his knife against the glass, he tinged the glass with his knifeer schlug mit dem Messer an das Glas, dass es klirrte
vi (bell)klingen
nKlingen nt; to give the bell a (quick) ting(kurz) klingeln


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Jesse bought a great many new machines for cut- ting down the cost of labor and all of the remaining acres in the strip of black fertile swamp land.
The men got up grunting from the grass, regret- ting the soft repose.
So he glided along, and the powwow and racket get- ting more and more outrageous all the time; and at last, when he had gone around two sides of the room, he disappears down cellar.
 
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