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Ping

//pɪŋ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A female given name.
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal) wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

    "The network is overloaded from all the pings going out."

  5. 5
    An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement. Internet

    "I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim."

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  1. 6
    Latency.

    ""You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!" > > And other such insights into why I was winning."

  2. 7
    A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
  3. 8
    A notification.
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

    "My car was pinging until my last oil change."

  2. 2
    send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active wordnet
  3. 3
    To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  4. 4
    contact, usually in order to remind of something wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    hit with a pinging noise wordnet
  2. 7
    To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response. broadly

    "I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim."

  3. 8
    make a short high-pitched sound wordnet
  4. 9
    To flick. colloquial

    "I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger."

  5. 10
    sound like a car engine that is firing too early wordnet
  6. 11
    To bounce. colloquial, intransitive

    "The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back."

  7. 12
    To cause something to bounce. colloquial, transitive

    "Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running."

  8. 13
    To call out audibly. colloquial

    "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."

  9. 14
    To penalize. Australia, colloquial

    "Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick."

  10. 15
    To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual. ambitransitive, slang

    "Bob has two kids, but he really pings."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

Etymology 2

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

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