Din vs Ding - What's the difference?
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Deutsches Institut für Normung. (German Institute for Standardization)
A formerly used logarithmic expression of the speed of a photographic film, plate, etc.; high-speed films have high numbers.
(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
(colloquial) A rejection.
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
To hit or strike.
To dash; to throw violently.
* Milton
To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
(colloquial) To fire or reject.
(colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
(golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
* Washington Irving
To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
* 1884 , Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists :
(intransitive, colloquial, gaming) To level up
In transitive terms the difference between din and ding
is that din is to repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody while ding is to keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.In intransitive terms the difference between din and ding
is that din is to make a din while ding is to make high-pitched sound like a bell.As nouns the difference between din and ding
is that din is a loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion while ding is very minor damage, a small dent or chip.As verbs the difference between din and ding
is that din is to be filled with sound; to resound while ding is to sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.As an acronym DIN
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) dingen, .Noun
(en noun)- I just got my first ding letter.
Verb
- The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
- to ding the book a coit's distance from him
- If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. — BBC surfing Wales [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml]
- His top school dinged him last week.
- My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
Derived terms
* ding upEtymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias Compare ,Verb
(en verb)- The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
- If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging' it, ' dinging it into one so.