different between tiding vs timing

English

Alternative forms

• tidinde (obsolete)
• tidind (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English tiding, tidinge (also tidinde, tidende, etc.), from Late Old English t?dung, from t?dan (“to befall; happen”), probably with assimilation to -ing.Either from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi ( > Danish/Norwegian tidende). Cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?d??/

Noun

tiding (plural tidings)

1. (archaic or literary, usually in the plural) news; new information
   • Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin. — A traditional Christmas carol.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
     What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
     What ?hippis are ?ailing to Scalis Malis?
     And all is not worth a couple of nut ?halis.

   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury

     But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!

Translations

Verb

tiding

1. present participle of tide

References

Anagrams

• diting, tingid

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?m??/
• Rhymes: -a?m??

Noun

timing (countable and uncountable, plural timings)

1. (countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
2. (countable, uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
3. (countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.
4. (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
5. (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

timing

1. present participle of time

Anagrams

• miting

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ti?ming

Noun

timing

1. a type of fish trap

Anagrams

• miting

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?.m??/
• Hyphenation: ti?ming

Noun

timing m (plural timings)

1. timing (synchronisation; regulation of pace or time)

Related terms

• timen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Noun

timing m (plural timings)

1. synchronization
2. pace
3. timing

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Noun

timing m (uncountable)

1. timing (time when something happens)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Noun

timing m (uncountable)

1. timing (time when something happens)