verb (used with or without object)
- to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.
noun
- a tinging sound.
verb (used with object), tinged, tinge·ing or ting·ing.
- to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to; tint.
- to impart a slight taste or smell to.
noun
- a slight degree of coloration.
- a slight admixture, as of some qualifying property or characteristic; trace; smattering: a tinge of garlic; a tinge of anger.
noun
- a high metallic sound such as that made by a small bell
verb
- to make or cause to make such a sound
noun
- (often capital) a variant spelling of thing 2
noun
- Samuel Chao Chung. born 1936, US physicist, who discovered the J/psi particle independently of Burton Richter, with whom he shared (1976) the Nobel prize for physics
noun
- a slight tint or colouringher hair had a tinge of grey
- any slight addition
verb tinges, tingeing, tinging or tinged (tr)
- to colour or tint faintly
- to impart a slight trace toher thoughts were tinged with nostalgia
v.late 15c., “to dye, color slightly,” from Latin tingere “to dye, color,” originally “to moisten” (see tincture). Related: Tinged. The noun is first recorded 1752.