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Ping   /pɪŋ/   Listen
Ping

noun
1.
A river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya.  Synonym: Ping River.
2.
A sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal).
verb
(past & past part. pinged; pres. part. pinging)
1.
Hit with a pinging noise.
2.
Sound like a car engine that is firing too early.  Synonyms: knock, pink.  "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"
3.
Make a short high-pitched sound.
4.
Contact, usually in order to remind of something.
5.
Send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active.



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"Ping" Quotes from Famous Books



... into a sandy wash that curved out of the mass of jagged ridges on the north. When midway across the bottom of the arroyo Lennon heard a sharp ping close above his ear—his sombrero whirled from his head. Before the hat struck the sand the rocky sides of the wash reverberated with the report of ...
— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet
... went towards the door, hearing the ping of the bell that some one touched in the room behind him, he turned once more, dazed and bewildered; and there were the two, husband and wife, standing in the soft, sunny light, as if transfigured. The girl had her arm round the man's shoulder, and stood ...
— Lord of the World • Robert Hugh Benson
... Provisions as to Education and Religious Freedom. 334. Japan: The Basic Documents of Japanese Education. (a) Preamble to the Education Code of 1872. (b) Imperial Rescript on Moral Education. (c) Instructions as to Lessons on Morals. 335. Ping Wen Kuo: Transformation of China by Education. 336. Mann: Education and National Prosperity. 337. Huxley: The Recent Progress of Science. 338. Anon.: Scientific Knowledge must precede Invention. 339. Ticknor: Illustrating Early Lack of Communication. 340. Monroe: The Struggle for ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... horse beside him, a blood-curdling chorus of strange barking screams, as from the throats of maniac women, rose at the farther side of the ravine, drowning the shouts of our men, the ping-g-g of the whistling bullets, and even the sharp crack of the muskets. It was the Indian war-whoop! A swarm of savages were leaping from the bush in all directions, and falling upon our men as they stood jammed together on the causeway. It was a horrible spectacle—of ...
— In the Valley • Harold Frederic
... muzzles covered us; and the tide of battle might after all have turned disastrously, had not the shrill ping of a bullet warned the enemy that there was no time to ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson


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