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Polling vs Ping - What's the difference?

polling | ping |

As verbs the difference between polling and ping

is that polling is present participle of lang=en while ping is to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

As nouns the difference between polling and ping

is that polling is the action of taking a poll while ping is a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

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.

    • ping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
    • My car used to make an odd ping , but after the last oil change it went away.
  • (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
    • The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
  • (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
    • The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
  • (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
    • I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.

    See also

    * beep * peep * ping pong * ACK * heartbeat

    Verb

  • To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
    • My car was pinging until my last oil change.
  • (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.
    • I'm pinging their server.
    The server pings its affiliates periodically.
  • (networking) To send a network packet to another host and receive an acknowledgement in return.
    • I can't ping their server: perhaps it's been switched off.
  • To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
    • I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
  • (colloquial) To flick.
    • I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
  • (colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
    • The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
  • (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running. }}
  • (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.}}

    See also

    * poll networking English onomatopoeias ----