Dinged vs Pinged - What's the difference?
dinged | pinged |
(ding)
(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
(ping)
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 verbs the difference between dinged and pinged
is that dinged is (ding) while pinged is (ping).dinged
English
Verb
(head)ding
English
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.
See also
* ding dongEtymology 3
Romanized from (etyl)pinged
English
Verb
(head)ping
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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