What is the difference between beep and ping?
beep | ping |
The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
A short, electronically produced tone.
To sound (something that makes a beep).
To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
To produce a beep.
Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
(submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
(text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
(submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
(networking) To send a network packet to another host and receive an acknowledgement in return.
To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
(colloquial) To flick.
(colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
(colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
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(colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
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As nouns the difference between beep and ping
is that beep is the sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound while ping is a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.As verbs the difference between beep and ping
is that beep is to sound (something that makes a beep) while ping is to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.beep
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (electronically produced ): bleepVerb
(en verb)- The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
- ''Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
- ''Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
Synonyms
* (sound (a car horn) ): honk, hoot, sound, toot * to have intercourse with, have sex with, fuck * (telephoning ): flashSee also
* pip English onomatopoeiasping
English
Noun
(en noun)- My car used to make an odd ping , but after the last oil change it went away.
- The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
- The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
- I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
See also
* beep * peep * ping pong * ACK * heartbeatVerb
- My car was pinging until my last oil change.
- I'm pinging their server.
- The server pings its affiliates periodically.
- I can't ping their server: perhaps it's been switched off.
- I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
- I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
- The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
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