0 to make a short ringing sound like a bell
1 to damage the surface of something slightly by hitting it:
3 a short ringing sound like that made by a bell
4 a small damaged area on a surface where something has hit it:
Higher reading and writing skills also relate positively to greater language stability, but the confoun ding effec t of age and proficiency level on the literacy variable is recognized.
The 'three-fix' referred to the official fixing of the grain output (ding-chan), the procurement quota (ding-gou), and the quantity supplied on resale to households with a deficit in grain (ding-xiao).
The public are fed up with ding-dong, hammer and tongs; they want consensus politics.
We are no longer lea ding the world in industrial reform, as we have been in the habit of doing.
I do not believe that this will be a political ding-dong.
Not surprisingly, they are not wildly enthusiastic about ding that.
There has been a good deal of ding-dong on police numbers during the debate.
We should not be entering into a party ding-dong in the current circumstances.
