Ping vs Pling - What's the difference?
ping | pling |
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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, date=December 29
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(colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
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(computing, dated) The symbol (an exclamation mark).
* 1989 , "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
* 1994 , "C.P. Brown", HAhAhA'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.advocacy )
* 1994 , Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines
* 1996 , "Tim Wiser", Pling thing revisited'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.apps )
As nouns the difference between ping and pling
is that ping is a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound while pling is the symbol ! (an exclamation mark).As a verb ping
is to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.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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See also
* poll networking English onomatopoeias ----pling
English
Noun
(en noun)- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).