different between bing vs ling

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)

1. (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
2. (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.
3. (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
4. (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)

1. (dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.

Alternative forms

• ping
• ding
• bong

Interjection

bing

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface

Etymology 4

Noun

bing (plural bings)

1. 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

2. A sound made by a bounce
3. A bounce

Verb

bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)

1. Making the sound of a bounce
2. 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

1. opium

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 42

Mandarin

Romanization

bing

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
3. 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)

1. committee
2. (law) jury

Derived terms

• bingagh
• co-ving
• fo-ving

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

bing

1. tuneful, musical, sweet
2. shrill

Derived terms

• kishtey bing (“dulcimer”)
• neuving
• ushag ving

Mutation

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural binger, definite plural bingene)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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.
2. A heap or pile.
3. A small hill, usually manmade.

Verb

bing (third-person singular present bings, present participle bingin, past bingt, past participle bingt)

1. To pile up; to create a bing.

Yagara

Noun

bing

1. 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?)

1. aquatic leech

Etymology 2

From Mandarin ? (b?ng).

Noun

bing (old orthography bi?)

1. soldier; army

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Middle English lenge, lienge. Probably related to long.

Noun

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

1. Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
2. The common ling, Molva molva.

Derived terms

• blue ling (Molva dypterygia)
• common ling (Molva molva)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.

Noun

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

1. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
   1. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

ling (uncountable)

1. (informal) Clipping of linguistics.

Anagrams

• lign-

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *linga, from Proto-Indo-European *leig-. Compare English lark (“to frolic”), Lithuanian láigyti (“to run around wildly”), Ancient Greek ??????? (elelíz?, “to whirl around”).

Noun

ling m (definite singular lingu)

1. quick gait, trot
2. hurry, haste, rush

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lingid.

Verb

ling (present analytic lingeann, future analytic lingfidh, verbal noun lingeadh, past participle lingthe) (transitive, intransitive)

1. (literary) leap, spring
2. jump at, attack
3. start back, shrink away from (with ó (“from”))

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• "ling" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “lingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “ling” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Mandarin

Romanization

ling

1. Nonstandard spelling of l?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of líng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of l?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lìng.

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.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Noun

ling m

1. leg, foot

See also

• pî

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li??]

Verb

ling

1. first-person singular present indicative of linge
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of linge
3. third-person plural present indicative of linge