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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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ding

/dɪŋ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of ting

Forms dings dinging dinged dang dung ting

  1. noun (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
  2. noun (colloquial) A rejection. “I just got my first ding letter.”
  3. verb (transitive) To hit or strike.
  4. verb To dash; to throw violently.
  5. verb (transitive, colloquial) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  6. verb (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject. “His top school dinged him last week.”
  7. verb (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize. “My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.”
  8. verb (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
  9. verb (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
  10. noun The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
  11. noun (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
  12. verb (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
  13. verb (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  14. verb (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
  15. noun An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
  16. noun (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
  17. noun (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
  18. noun In American Chinese cuisine, cubed or bite-sized meat. “shrimp ding”
  19. proper noun (historical) A prefecture of imperial China within present-day Hebei under the Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang dynasties, with its seat at Dingzhou.
  20. proper noun (historical) A county of Republican China in Hebei Province.

Synonyms

Dingxian Dingzhou dent gouge nick dong dingdong

Etymology

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).
Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną.
Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
  2. verb To cause to sound or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.
  3. verb To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.]
  4. verb To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.

Etymology [OE. dingen, dengen; akin to AS. dencgan to knock, Icel. dengja to beat, hammer, Sw. dänga, G. dengeln.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ding”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “ding” (best matches first).