Ping vs Bing - What's the difference?
ping | bing |
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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(slang): Prison solitary confinement, a term used by inmates.
(British) A heap or pile, such as a slag heap. Cognate with Scots bing.
The sound made by a bell, an
: Bing ! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.
:: Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010 , Jim Rankin http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/831562--ryanair-looking-at-standing-seats-pay-toilets (accessed 17 September 2010)
: Bing Bang Boing
:: Douglas Florian, 1994 http://books.google.com/books?id=KtsSWKOWfnwC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false (accessed 17 September 2010)
: The Tao of Bada Bing
:: David Chase, 2003 http://books.google.com/books?id=R9FlujWxnDEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:ISBN1566492785 (accessed 17 September 2010)
As nouns the difference between ping and bing
is that ping is a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound while bing is : Prison solitary confinement, a term used by inmates.As a verb ping
is to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.As a proper noun Bing is
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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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