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Dinged vs Pinged - What's the difference?

dinged | pinged |

As verbs the difference between dinged and pinged

is that dinged is (ding) while pinged is (ping).

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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    pinged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ping)

  • ping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  • My car used to make an odd ping , but after the last oil change it went away.
  • (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
  • The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
  • (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
  • The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
  • (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
  • I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.

    See also

    * beep * peep * ping pong * ACK * heartbeat

    Verb

  • To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  • My car was pinging until my last oil change.
  • (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.
  • I'm pinging their server.
    The server pings its affiliates periodically.
  • (networking) To send a network packet to another host and receive an acknowledgement in return.
  • I can't ping their server: perhaps it's been switched off.
  • To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  • I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
  • (colloquial) To flick.
  • I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
  • (colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
  • The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
  • (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running. }}
  • (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.}}

    See also

    * poll networking English onomatopoeias ----