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Pinging vs Polling - What's the difference?

pinging | polling |

As verbs the difference between pinging and polling

is that pinging is present participle of lang=en while polling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pinging and polling

is that pinging is the sound of a ping while polling is the action of taking a poll.

pinging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a ping.
  • * 1870 , Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (volume 2, page 320)
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Ramona DeFelice Long, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (page 202)
    • 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.
  • The act of sending a ping, as by a submarine or over a computer network.

    • polling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of taking a poll.
  • (computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer.