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TING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell

Synonyms:

ting; tinkle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("ting" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

ting (make a light, metallic sound; go 'ting')

ting (cause to make a ting)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a light, metallic sound; go 'ting'

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "ting" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

ting (a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to make a ting

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "ting" is one way to...):

sound (cause to sound)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

ting (a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Everything is grey—except the green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; grey clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the grey sea, into which the sand-points stretch like grey fingers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor's Commons; which I read with some surprise: Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the limited opportunities conceded to me in the midst of my professional duties, of contemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged by the prismatic hues of memory, has ever afforded me, as it ever must continue to afford, gratifying emotions of no common description.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sun was beginning to sink behind the stables of Mapleton, and the long, sloping plain in front of us was tinged with gold, deepening into rich, ruddy browns where the faded ferns and brambles caught the evening light.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)