Pinging vs Ginging - What's the difference?
pinging | ginging |
The sound of a ping.
* 1870 , Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (volume 2, page 320)
* 2011 , Ramona DeFelice Long, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (page 202)
The act of sending a ping, as by a submarine or over a computer network.
As nouns the difference between pinging and ginging
is that pinging is the sound of a ping while ginging is (mining) the lining of a shaft with stones or bricks to prevent collapse.As a verb pinging
is .pinging
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(en noun)- walking across the open in stern composure, with the pingings of the hostile bullets, and the imploring cries of his comrades to save himself, sounding in his ears.
- When she entered, her eyes and ears were assaulted by neon lights in bright colors, the hypnotic, musical pingings of electronic slot and poker machines, and the clinking of coins dropping into payout trays.