* Ling, an ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice''
* Ling, a fictional character from the ''
Mulan
Hua Mulan () is a legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century Common Era, CE) of Chinese history. Scholar, Scholars generally consider Mulan to be a fictional character. Hua Mulan is depicte ...
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* Ling, a playable character from the mobile game '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang''
* Ling Bouvier, a fictional character from ''The Simpsons''
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Ling Woo
Ling Woo is a fictional character in the US comedy drama '' Ally McBeal'', portrayed by Chinese-American actress Lucy Liu. A Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American lawyer, Ling has been described as cold and ferocious.
At the time, she was cited a ...
, a fictional character from ''Ally McBeal''
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Ling Xiaoyu
Ling Xiaoyu () is a character from the ''Tekken'' fighting game series by Bandai Namco. Making her debut in ''Tekken 3'', Xiaoyu returns in all the subsequent main installments, as well as several spin-off titles. She is a skilled Chinese martia ...
, a fictional character from the ''Tekken'' series
* Ling Yao, a character from the manga series ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and its 2009 anime adaptation ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''
* Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, characters from ''American Dad!''
Fish
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Atlantic cod
The Atlantic cod (: cod; ''Gadus morhua'') is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as '' cod'' or ''codling''.Blue ling (''Molva dypterygia'')
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Burbot
The burbot (''Lota lota''), also known as bubbot, mariah, loche, cusk, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of ...
(''Lota lota'') or freshwater ling
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Cobia
The cobia (''Rachycentron canadum'') (, ) is a species of marine carangiform ray-finned fish, the only extant representative of the genus '' Rachycentron'' and the family Rachycentridae. Its other common names include black kingfish, black ...
(''Rachycentron canadum'')
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Common ling
The common ling (''Molva molva''), also known as the white ling or simply the ling, is a large member of the Family (biology), family Lotidae, a group of Gadiformes, cod-like fish. It resembles the related rocklings, but it is much larger and ha ...
(''Molva molva'')
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Pink cusk-eel
The pink cusk-eel, ''Genypterus blacodes'', is a Demersal fish, demersal species of cusk-eel in the family Ophidiidae found in the oceans around southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland Region, ...
(''Genypterus blacodes''), pink ling or northern ling
Plants
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Calluna
''Calluna vulgaris'', common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus ''Calluna'' in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a low-growing evergreen shrub growing to tall, or rarely to and taller, and is found wide ...
'', a flowering plant in the heather family
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Water caltrop
The water caltrop is any of three extant species of the genus ''Trapa'': ''Trapa natans'', ''Trapa bicornis'' and the endangered ''Trapa rossica''. It is also known as buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, ling nut, mustache nut, singhara nut or wate ...
or ling nut
Religion
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Ling (Chinese religion)
Ling (, ) is the notion of sacred in Chinese traditional religions.
Overview
''Xian ling'' and ''shen''
It is the state or power of gods and divine beings ('' shen'') that is multiplied by their appearance in vision during trance or by loc ...
, the notion of the sacred in Chinese religions
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Lingam
A lingam ( , lit. "sign, symbol or mark"), sometimes referred to as linga or Shiva linga, is an abstract or Aniconism, aniconic representation of the Hinduism, Hindu Hindu deities, god Shiva in Shaivism. The word ''lingam'' is found in the Up ...
or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva
Other uses
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Ling (surname) Ling is a surname which can be of either Chinese, English, or Nordic origin.
Chinese
"Ling" is the Roman alphabet spelling of multiple Chinese surnames.
Líng ()
According to traditional stories, the surname pronounced Líng () in Mandarin origina ...
, a surname of various origins
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Ling (bell)
(), also known as clapper-bells, are a form of bell found in Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites in China. They consist of a hollow bell body and a clapper dangled inside, which produces sound as it strikes the internal rim of the bel ...
, a form of bell
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County magistrate
The county magistrate or local magistrate, known by several Chinese names, was the official in charge of the '' xian'' ("county"), the lowest level of central government in Imperial and early Republican China. The magistrate was the official ...
or , a government official in imperial China
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Lings Wood Nature Reserve
Lings Wood is a 20.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in eastern Northampton. It is owned by Northampton Borough Council and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
Frogs, newts, damselflies and dragonf ...
, or Lings, Northampton, England
See also
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-ling
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle som ...
, an English diminutive suffix
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Ling-Ling (disambiguation) Ling Ling, Ling-Ling, or Lingling may refer to:
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* Lingling, the former name of Yongzhou, a city in the Hunan province of China
** Lingling District, under the administration of Yongzhou
People
* Lingling (born 1997), member of the ...
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Gesar of Ling
The Epic of King Gesar (), also spelled Kesar () or Geser (especially in Mongolian contexts), is an epic from Tibet and Central Asia. It originally developed between 200 or 300 BCE and about 600 CE. Folk balladeers continued to pass on the sto ...
, mythical Tibetan culture-hero
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Linga (disambiguation)
A linga, or lingam, is a symbol of the Hindu deity Shiva.
Linga may also refer to:
People
* Praveen Linga (born 1979), Indian chemical engineer
Places
* Linga, Victoria, Australia
* Linga, Madhya Pradesh, India
* List of islands called Ling ...
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Linh (Vietnamese religion)
Vietnamese folk religion () or Đạo Lương (道良) is a group of spiritual beliefs and practices adhered to by the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are reported irreligious, but are associated with this tradition.
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, is the notion of the sacred in Vietnamese religions, and the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character
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Linh Linh is a Vietnamese name that means "soul" or "spirit". It is the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character (líng), which is not used as a surname in China.
Surname
* Linh Quang Viên (1918-2013), Vietnamese soldier who rose to the rank ...
, a Vietnamese surname
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Luing
Luing ( ; ) is one of the Slate Islands, Scotland, Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about south of Oban. The island has an area of and is bounded by several small skerries and islets. It has a population of aroun ...
, an island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
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Luing cattle
Luing cattle (pronounced ''ling cattle'') are a beef breed developed on the island of Luing in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland by the Cadzow brothers in 1947. It was formed by first crossbreeding Beef Shorthorn with Highland cattle and then bree ...
which originate from the island
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