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Thinged vs Chinged - What's the difference?

thinged | chinged |

As verbs the difference between thinged and chinged

is that thinged is (thing) while chinged is (ching).

thinged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (thing)

    • thing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
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  • A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
  • An individual object or distinct entity.
  • (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
  • (legal) Whatever can be owned.
  • The latest fad or fashion.
  • (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
  • (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
  • (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
  • (slang) A penis.
  • * 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
    • “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing .”
  • A living being or creature.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • That which matters; the crux.
  • * 1914 , Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, The Movie Man] [playscript:
    • Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing . (in reference to the execution of Fernandez)
  • (chiefly, historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
  • * 1974 , Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga , translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:
    • In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
  • * 1974', Jakob Benediktsson, ''Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis'', in ''Saga Íslands'', quoted in '''1988 by Jesse L. Byock in ''Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power , page 85:
    • The goðar'' seem both to have received payment of ''thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing , and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
  • * 1988 , Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power , page 59:
    • All Icelandic things were skap-thing , meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.

    Quotations

    * 1611 — (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

    Synonyms

    * stuff (uncountable equivalent) * item * yoke (Ireland)

    Derived terms

    * anything * bright young thing * everything * here's the thing * nothing * see things * something * sweet young thing * swing of things * the thing is * thingal * thingamajig * thinger * thinghood * thingly * thingness * thingo * thingy *

    Related terms

    * diminutives:'' thingy / thingie, thingo [''Aus ]

    External links

    * *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.

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    Anagrams

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    chinged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ching)

    • ching

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze.
    • External links
    * (wikipedia "ching")

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopeic.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)

    • Noun

  • (countable) A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
  • * 1992 , Paul McCusker, The Secret Cave of Robinwood , Focus on the Family Publishing (1992), ISBN 9781561791026, page 40:
    • The hoe banged against a spade on the wall, making a loud "ching !"
  • * 2004 , Jacquie D'Alessandro, We've Got Tonight , Harlequin (2004), ISBN 9781459213562, unnumbered page:
    • "To predictions coming true," Riley agreed, touching her rim to his with a quiet ching of crystal.
  • * 2008 , Greg Weston, Ocean View Terrace and the Blue Pirate Eater , Lulu (2008), ISBN 9781409202783, page 196:
    • Joseph gulped and drew his sword with a loud ching .
  • *
  • (uncountable, slang) Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
  • * 2005 , Paul Lindsay, The Big Scam , Simon & Schuster (2005), ISBN 0743274660, page 100:
    • "Supposedly, it was worth millions back then, so it could be worth maybe ten times as much now."
    Tatorrio whistled. "That's a lot of ching ."
  • * 2006 , Neville Basson, " The Golden Hour", New Era , 7 April 2006:
    • If there are any people owing you money, it's a good time to drive to their houses and look for your "ching ".
  • * 2012 , :
    • Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy / Hold onto your ching
  • * 2012 , Erik Biksa, " Ask Erik: Raw! — Shopping Savvy", Rosebud , 18 July 2012:
    • If you know how to play your cards when buying, you can definitely save some ching here, especially on bigger ops.
    Synonyms
    * (money) See also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
    • The cutlery was chinging as the boat swayed around on the sea.
  • * 2004 , David J. Morris, Storm on the Horizon: Khafji — The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War , Free Press (2004), ISBN 9780743235570, unnumbered page:
    • These shadows, black as the earth they emerged from, were wearing what looked like dull German helmets, their webgear and canteens chinging as they ran.
  • * 2004 , Devlin O'Neill, A Maid's Friends and Fantasies: Short Stories , Blue Moon Books (2005), ISBN 9781562014735, page 4:
    • Crystal chings and we sip.
  • * 2009 , Dean Nelson, God Hides in Plain Sight: How to See the Sacred in a Chaotic World , Brazos Press (2009), ISBN 9781587432330, page 146:
    • One of the braves had an ankle bell that chinged when he walked.
  • *

    • See also

    * cha-ching * kerching English onomatopoeias

    Etymology 3

    Unknown.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Scotland, slang) Cocaine.
  • * 2002 , Irvine Welsh, Porno , Random House (2002), ISBN 022406181X, unnumbered page:
    • I'll leave the message, but Simon's very much a free spirit, I state to the receiver as I use a fifty-pound note to hoover up some ching .
  • * 2006 , Niall Griffiths, Wreckage , Graywolf Press (2006), ISBN 9781555974411, page 70:
    • Then back again to merely scoring some ching and getting fucking wasted.
  • * 2011 , David Taylor, " Revealed: Sick prison boasts of woman who stabbed young mum to death in revenge attack", Daily Record (Scotland), 30 June 2011:
    • She said: "We were all drinking and snorting ching (cocaine).
    Synonyms
    * See also .

    Anagrams

    * (l) ----