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Ding vs Dying - What's the difference?

ding | dying |

As nouns the difference between ding and dying

is that ding is very minor damage, a small dent or chip while dying is those who are currently expiring, moribund.

As verbs the difference between ding and dying

is that ding is to sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang while dying is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective dying is

approaching death; about to die; moribund.

ding

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dingen, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
  • (colloquial) A rejection.
    • I just got my first ding letter.

    Verb

  • To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
    • The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
  • To hit or strike.
  • To dash; to throw violently.
  • * Milton
    • to ding the book a coit's distance from him
  • To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
    • 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]
  • (colloquial) To fire or reject.
    • His top school dinged him last week.
  • (colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
    • My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
  • (golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
    • Derived terms
    * ding up

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias Compare ,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched sound of a bell, especially with wearisome continuance.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
  • To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  • * 1884 , Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists :
    • If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging' it, ' dinging it into one so.
  • (intransitive, colloquial, gaming) To level up
    • See also
    * ding dong

    Etymology 3

    Romanized from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid; also called ting.
    • ----

    dying

    English

    (wikipedia dying)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
    • The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
    dying fire
  • Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
    • In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
  • Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
    • His dying words were of his mother.
    until my dying day
    his dying bed
    Antonyms
    * nascent

    Noun

  • (plurale tantum) Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
    • The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying .
  • The process of approaching death; or, less precisely , death itself.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) )

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