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Pling vs Plink - What's the difference?

pling | plink |

As nouns the difference between pling and plink

is that pling is (computing|dated) the symbol (an exclamation mark) while plink is a short, high-pitched sound.

As a verb plink is

(colloquial) to play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.

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).

    plink

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, high-pitched sound

    • Related terms

    * (go "plink") to make a short, high pitched sound, to break while making a "plink" sound, : ''The lightbulb went "plink".

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
  • * 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
    • He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
  • * 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
    • Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
  • * 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
    • The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
    English onomatopoeias