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Hiss vs Ping - What's the difference?

hiss | ping |

As a noun hiss

is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.

As a verb hiss

is to make a hissing sound.

hiss

English

Noun

(es)
  • A high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
  • An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.
  • Verb

  • To make a hissing sound.
  • As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
    The arrow hissed through the air.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=John Elkington , title=John Elkington , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."}}
  • To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
  • The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
  • * Shakespeare
  • if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
  • To utter with a hissing sound.
  • * Tennyson
  • the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise

    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 ----