Ling meaning

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In a specified direction, manner, or condition.

Darkling.

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Any of various marine food fishes closely related to and resembling the cod, especially Molva molva of northern Atlantic waters, having a long body and a barbel on the chin.
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One connected with.

Worldling.

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One having a specified quality.

Underling.

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One that is young, small, or inferior.

Duckling.

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Any of several edible gadoid fishes mostly of the N Atlantic.
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Linguistics.
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Small or young (person or thing specified)

Duckling.

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One in relation to a (specified) thing, esp. in seeming subordinate, unimportant, or contemptible.

Hireling, earthling, groundling.

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In a (specified) manner, condition, or direction; to a (specified) extent.

Darkling.

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Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
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Short for common ling, Molva molva.
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Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
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A diminutive modifier of nouns having either the physical sense of "a younger, smaller or inferior version of what is denoted by the original noun", or the derived sense indicating possession of or connection with a quality, which may having the sense of "a follower or resident of what is denoted by the stem form".
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(as an adverb) In the manner or direction indicated by the main stem (object.)
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Origin of ling

  • ME -linge < OE -ling, -lang < IE base *lenk-, to bend > Latvian lùnkans, flexible
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
  • ME < OE, combining the bases of -le + -ing
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
  • Middle English possibly of Low German origin del-1 in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English from Old Norse lyng
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English from Old English
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English from Old English
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English -ling, from Old English -ling, from Proto-Germanic *-lingaz, a nominal suffix, probably composed of Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (agent/instrumental suffix) + Proto-Germanic *-ingaz (patronymic suffix). Akin to Old High German -ling, Old Norse -lingr, Gothic -𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (-liggs) (in 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (gadiliggs)). More at -le, -ing.
    From Wiktionary

Ling Sentence Examples

  • 4.-1, .Rescu Ling Of Girl, Cnossus.

  • Ling Roth, Queensland Aborigines (Brisbane, 1897); Carl Lumholtz, Among Cannibals (1889); Walter E.

  • Several nice pollack turned up and a few good ling.

  • The haaf or deep-sea catch principally consists of cod, ling, torsk and saithe.

  • According to Dr Jakob Jakobsen, the name means the voe (waa) of the skollas, or booths, occupied by the men who came to attend the meeting of the ling, or open-air law court, which assembled in former days on an island in the Loch of Tingwall (hence its name), about 3 m.

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