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bing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).
Cf also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
Noun
bing (countable and uncountable, plural bings)
- (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
- (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
- (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
- (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile.
Etymology 2
Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).
Verb
bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)
- (dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run
Etymology 3
Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.
Alternative forms
- ping
- ding
- bong
Interjection
bing
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface
Etymology 4
Noun
bing (plural bings)
- The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia
- Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin
- 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.
- Douglas Florian, 1994
- Bing Bang Boing
- David Chase, 2003
- The Tao of Bada Bing
- Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin
- A sound made by a bounce
- A bounce
Verb
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
- ping
- ding
- boing
- bong
- bang
- bada bing bada boom
References
Anagrams
- GBNI, Gbin
Khumi Chin
Etymology
Akin to Burmese ????? (bhin:).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??/
Noun
bing
- opium
References
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?[1], Payap University, page 42
Mandarin
Romanization
bing
- Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of bìng.
Usage notes
- 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
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bing f (genitive singular bingagh or bingey, plural bingaghyn)
- committee
- (law) jury
Derived terms
- bingagh
- co-ving
- fo-ving
Etymology 2
From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).
Adjective
bing
- tuneful, musical, sweet
- shrill
Derived terms
- kishtey bing (“dulcimer”)
- neuving
- ushag ving
Mutation
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural binger, definite plural bingene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by binge
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural bingar, definite plural bingane)
- alternative form of binge
Scots
Alternative forms
- byng
Etymology
From Old Norse bingr; cf. Middle English bynge (“a bin, enclosure, pen”).
Cf also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??/
Noun
bing (plural bings)
- A man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
- A heap or pile.
- A small hill, usually manmade.
Verb
bing (third-person singular present bings, present participle bingin, past bingt, past participle bingt)
- To pile up; to create a bing.
Yagara
Noun
bing
- father
References
- State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pi???/
- Tone numbers: bing1
- Hyphenation: bing
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *pli??? (“aquatic leech”). Cognate with Thai ???? (bpling), Lao ??? (p?ng), Lü ??? (?iing), Shan ???? (p?ng).
Noun
bing (old orthography bi?)
- aquatic leech
Etymology 2
From Mandarin ? (b?ng).
Noun
bing (old orthography bi?)
- soldier; army
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edge
English
Etymology
From Middle English egge, from Old English e??, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agj? (compare Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”) (compare Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aci?s (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “needle”), ???? (akm?, “point”), and Persian ??? (?s, “grinding stone”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?/
- Hyphenation: edge
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
edge (plural edges)
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage.
- 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN:
- Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."
- 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN:
- (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London, page 49:
- No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
- 1833, Adam Clarke (editor), Revelations, II, 12, The New Testament, page 929:
- And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London, page 49:
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, George Steevens (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1, page 166:
- Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1824, Edwartd Hawkins (editor), The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1, page 32:
- In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
- 1820, Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe, 1833, The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3, page 9:
- they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to the very edge of destruction, any of their less powerful neighbours
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, George Steevens (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1, page 166:
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2, The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, 1841, page 69:
- Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
- 1820, Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe, 1827, page 175:
- we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2, The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, 1841, page 69:
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- in the edge of evening
- 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, The Prose Works of John Milton, published 1853, Volume V, page 203
- supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
- Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
- 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In human sexuality, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
Synonyms
- (advantage): advantage, gain
- (sharp terminating border): brink, boundary, lip, margin, rim
- (in graph theory): line
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- edge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
- Mathworld article on the edges of polygons
- Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra
Verb
edge (third-person singular simple present edges, present participle edging, simple past and past participle edged)
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- He edged the book across the table.
- The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- He edged away from her.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
- If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
- 2005, Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More, Section 2: Paths and Walkways, page 181,
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- 1690, Richard Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy
- To edge her champion sword
- 1690, Richard Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy
- (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt
- By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt
- (intransitive, slang) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- 2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44
- His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.
- 2012, Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field, page 44
Translations
Derived terms
(See above.)
Quotations
- 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
- In Mlle. Carlotta’s correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!
Anagrams
- geed
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