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Fling vs Pling - What's the difference?

fling | pling |

As nouns the difference between fling and pling

is that fling is an act of throwing, often violently while pling is (computing|dated) the symbol (an exclamation mark).

As a verb fling

is to throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.

fling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of throwing, often violently.
  • An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
    • the fling of a horse
  • An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
  • * D. Jerrold
    • When I was as young as you, I had my fling . I led a life of pleasure.
  • Short, often sexual relationship.
    • I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.
  • (figuratively) An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling" ).
  • (obsolete) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I, who love to have a fling , / Both at senate house and king.
  • A kind of dance.
    • the Highland fling
  • (obsolete) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
  • * Old proverb
    • England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, / Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
  • * Addison
    • I know thy generous temper well. / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire.
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
    • Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.
  • (archaic) To throw oneself in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
  • * Milton
    • And crop-full, out of doors he flings .
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • I flung' closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, ' flings to sheath.
  • (archaic) To throw; to wince; to flounce.
  • * Helen Crocket, The Ettrick Shepherd's Last Tale
    • The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.
  • (archaic) To utter abusive language; to sneer.
    • The scold began to flout and fling .

    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).