Used in a Sentence

ying

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ying.

Editorial note

Maybe Steve was that balance to Jony and now the ying is yangless.

Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ying gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.

noun

(historical) ancient city in Hubei, China, a former capital of the state of Chu.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ying.

noun

A surname.

noun

A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.

noun

(historical) ancient city in Hubei, China, a former capital of the state of Chu.

noun

(historical) Synonym of Cheng, ancient city and former state in Shaanxi, China.

Example sentences

1

Maybe Steve was that balance to Jony and now the ying is yangless.

2

This is an area where you want mathematically provable correctness and unit testing up the ying-yang.

3

To do that fractal ying-yang in 36 lines is obscene.

4

Everyone likes to make a sport of bashing Microsoft (no pun intended), but that is simply WHY Microsoft is so darn successful: Backwards compatibility up the ying-yang.

5

The submission system is also going to have security/classification issues up the ying yang in terms of wanting lots of people to use it, yet storing highly sensitive data.

6

I spoke to a lot of people about what they envisioned for the technical cofounder role for my product and then made a 'dream resume' of that candidate along with the personality traits that would be the ying to my yang.

Quote examples

1

I knew OpenDNS redirected host-not-found traffic to their results page, but hadn't heard of them "prox[ying] google search traffic onto its own servers".

2

I think most people are probably like this, and I think that's probably why, after two solid decades of "get more X to Y", we haven't really seen an increase in Xs Ying.

3

"Hustle" and "Hack" make up the ying-yang of tech startups.

4

The Chinese equivalent is “Ru guo wo na tien wan shan qu kan le dien ying, wo jiu bu neng gen wo ma qu chi wan fan.” This translates roughly to the English: If that night I go watch (past particle) a movie, I then cannot accompany my mom to go eat dinner.

Proper noun examples

1

When Pavlovich wrote a second set of poems based on Ying-Yang opposites, it worked about equally well.

2

Both Kevin Rudd and Ma Ying-jeou display fluency and mastery of foreign language.

3

Ying and yang, Too much nurturing can be toxic.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ying in a sentence?

Maybe Steve was that balance to Jony and now the ying is yangless.

What does ying mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is ying?

ying is commonly used as noun.