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Dinged vs Dinge - What's the difference?

dinged | dinge |

As verbs the difference between dinged and dinge

is that dinged is (ding) while dinge is to strike, scourge, or beat.

As a noun dinge is

dinginess.

dinged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ding)

  • 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.
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    dinge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (dingy).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Dinginess.
  • A black person.
  • *1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010 p. 3:
  • *:‘A dinge ,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
  • * 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 46:
  • *:‘You made a hit with the dinge ,’ Bob was saying.
  • Derived terms
    *dinge queen

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To strike, scourge, or beat.
  • To flog, as in penance
  • Derived terms
    * dinged-up

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