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Piling vs Pling - What's the difference?

piling | pling |

As nouns the difference between piling and pling

is that piling is a structural support comprised of a length of wood, steel, or other construction material while pling is (computing|dated) the symbol (an exclamation mark).

As a verb piling

is .

piling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structural support comprised of a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
  • The act of heaping up.
  • (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles, to form bars, etc.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    pling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, dated) The symbol (an exclamation mark).
  • * 1989 , "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
    • This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
  • * 1994 , "C.P. Brown", HAhAhA'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.advocacy )
    • IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
  • * 1994 , Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines
    • Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
  • * 1996 , "Tim Wiser", Pling thing revisited'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.apps )
    • Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling -inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).

    Usage notes

    * Associated with (Acorn Computers).