bing
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), related to Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).
Noun[edit]
bing (plural bings)
- (slang): Prison solitary confinement, a term used by inmates.
- (Britain) A heap or pile, such as a slag heap. Cognate with Scots bing.
Etymology 2[edit]
Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).
Verb[edit]
bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)
Etymology 3[edit]
Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.
Alternative forms[edit]
Interjection[edit]
bing
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface
Etymology 4[edit]
Noun[edit]
bing (plural bings)
- The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia
- Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.
- Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin [1]
- Bing Bang Boing
- Douglas Florian, 1994 [2]
- The Tao of Bada Bing
- David Chase, 2003 [3]
- Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.
- A sound made by a bounce
- A bounce
Verb[edit]
bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)
- Making the sound of a bounce
- To bounce
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/831562--ryanair-looking-at-standing-seats-pay-toilets (accessed 17 September 2010)
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=KtsSWKOWfnwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed 17 September 2010)
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=R9FlujWxnDEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:ISBN1566492785 (accessed 17 September 2010)
Anagrams[edit]
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
bing
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Manx[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
bing f (genitive singular bingagh or bingey, plural bingaghyn)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bing
Derived terms[edit]
- kishtey bing (“dulcimer”)
- neuving
- ushag ving
Mutation[edit]
Manx mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bing | ving | ming |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scots[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English bing-r; cf. Middle English bynge (“a bin”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bing (plural bings)
Verb[edit]
bing (third-person singular present bings, present participle bingin, past bingt, past participle bingt)
- To pile up; to create a bing.
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English slang
- British English
- English verbs
- English dated terms
- English dialectal terms
- English interjections
- English onomatopoeias
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin pinyin
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Manx lemmas
- Manx nouns
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- Manx adjectives
- Scots terms derived from Old English
- Scots terms derived from Middle English
- Scots terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scots lemmas
- Scots nouns
- Scots verbs