ping
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
video-games
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: pings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pang
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: pinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pang
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: pung
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
pos: noun
examples: My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
With a sudden ping, there was a rabbit there in the black labyrinth with him[.]
gloss: A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
pos: noun
examples: The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
gloss: A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
pos: noun
examples: The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
gloss: An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
gloss: Latency.
pos: noun
examples: "You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"
> > And other such insights into why I was winning.
Your best bet to negate lag is to go to a server using the zero ping mutator. This will compensate for your high ping when using a pistol, sniper or […]
gloss: A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
pos: noun
gloss: A notification.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
pos: verb
examples: My car was pinging until my last oil change.
The microwave pinged. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the timer again.
gloss: To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
pos: verb
gloss: To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
pos: verb
examples: I'm pinging their server.
The server pings its affiliates periodically.
Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.
gloss: To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't ping me; I'll ping you.
If certain attendees don't actively participate and that's a surprise to you, ping them an email or private chat message and ask what's happening for them.
gloss: To flick.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
gloss: To bounce.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
At that moment a rifle cracked. The bullet pinged against the railings and whirred off on a ricochet.
gloss: To cause something to bounce.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.
gloss: To call out audibly.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: 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.
gloss: To penalize.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
colloquial
examples: Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.
gloss: To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Bob has two kids, but he really pings.
Plus, he pings her gaydar big time, although there's nothing obvious about it in his comportment.
Related words: ghost-ping
pingdemic
ping pong
ping sweep
popty ping
Derived words: pingy
soft ping
sping
ghost-ping
pingable
pingback
pingee
pinger
pingingly
reply-ping
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