tingle
Collocations
4ADJ.
bad, diminutive, little, real
VERB + TINGLE
begins, felt, hand, made, makes, placing, ring
TINGLE + NOUN
baby, bells, joy, middle, pleasure, stomach, toe
PREP.
down, from, in, with
Definitions
verb
To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
My hands were tingling from the cold.
I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.
To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.
To ring; to tinkle or twang.
Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round sharp tingling bells
To cause to ring, to tinkle.
Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled.
[…]the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.
noun
A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
Their every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature.
The tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.
noun
A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
From the diminutive "tingle" or baby tack up to the massive ship spike, almost every kind of nail is shown, not only in iron and steel, but also in copper, zinc, and brass,, and on the partition will be noticed a somewhat novel application of nails.
Figs. 16, 17, 18 show method of forming a double welt, notice the copper tack or tingle to same as further security.
A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.
If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle. Metal tingles are not ; they require a lot of fastenings and even then are not easily made really watertight.
With tin snips, cut the tingle to shape (some people bend the edges over to form a 1/4-inch hem), and lather it with polysulfide seam compound.
An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.
The tingle is fastened on the top of the brick by a small pat of mortar, on which is placed a piece of brick to keep the tingle firm.
a tingle is used to prevent the line from sagging in the middle if it is being used on a long wall
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6My hands were tingling from the cold.
WiktionaryI got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.
WiktionaryFor five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a
WiktionaryTheir every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature.
WiktionaryThe tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.
WiktionaryThe tingle of bells is crisp, cutting the Tibetan air with a clarity that feels like blue porcelain cracking against the endless chime of bells.
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