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# tingle

verb (tingle, tingles, tingled, tingling); noun (a tingle, tingles)

«tingle» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. When a part of your body tingles, you feel lots of tiny prickles in it, like pins and needles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#m1)
2. To tingle with a feeling, such as excitement or fear, means to feel it strongly all over. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#m2)
3. A tingle is that light prickly feeling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and health it describes how a hand or foot feels when blood comes back after it has «gone to sleep», or how cold fingers feel when they warm up. In stories it shows excitement or fear: «a tingle ran down her spine». Phrases: «tingle with excitement», «a tingle down your spine», «tingling fingers».

### Examples

- My foot tingled after I sat on it for too long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x1)
- Her fingers tingled when she warmed them by the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x2)
- I tingled with excitement before the school play. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x3)
- A tingle ran down his spine when he heard the creaky door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x4)
- Mint toothpaste makes my mouth tingle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x5)
- The cold water made my skin tingle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x6)
- If your arm tingles for a long time, tell an adult. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x7)
- Then he began to feel a curious tingling sensation all over him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb: tingled, tingling (drop the e). Tingle is a gentle feeling, not real pain. The noun is countable: «a tingle». Do not confuse with «tinkle» (a light ringing sound).

## In Jewish tradition

Ears tingling means ringing with shock at terrible news.

**Interpretation.** Used for God's coming judgment. Tradition reads it as the horror of Eli's house's fall and of Jerusalem's destruction.

### Examples

- And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. (Prophets 1SA.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tingle/#x1)
- therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. (Prophets 2KI.21.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tingle/#x2)

### Note

Regular verb: tingled, tingling (drop the e). Tingle is a gentle feeling, not real pain. The noun is countable: «a tingle». Do not confuse with «tinkle» (a light ringing sound).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tingle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tingle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tingle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tingle.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tingle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tingle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tingle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tingle.html) on Mova free.