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noun

Ding n. A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

verb

Ding v. t. (past & past part. dinged, obs. dang, or obs. dung; pres. part. dinging)

To dash; to throw violently. (Obs.) "To ding the book a coit's distance from him."

To cause to sound or ring.

To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Ding v. i.

To strike; to thump; to pound. (Obs.) "Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves."

To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang. "The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes."

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. (Low)

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Etymology of 'Ding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ding" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'ing', or inclosure, that which is contained within an outline, or circumscribed. So likewise to 'think' is to inclose, to determine, confine and define. To think an infinite is a contradiction in terms equal to a boundless bound. So in German 'Ding, denken'; in Latin ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... till night they keep thumping away,— No sound but the anvil the whole of the day; His afternoon's nap and his daughter's new song, Were banished and spoiled by their hammer's ding-dong. ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... father lies; Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell. Hark! now I hear them,— ding ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

... are not sufficiently impressed by the fact of its being Christmas Eve. The ding-ding-dong of the bells of Notre Dame fails to move you; and just now when the magic-lantern passed beneath the window, I looked at you while pretending to work, and ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Melville shudder and tremble, till he could not hold his pen to write. No doubt the prophet was denouncing "that last Beast," the Pope, and his allies in Scotland, as he had done these many years ago. Ere he had finished his sermon "he was like to ding the pulpit to blads and fly out of it." He attended a play, written by Davidson, later a famous preacher, on the siege and fall of the Castle, exhibiting the hanging of his old ally, Kirkcaldy, "according to Mr. Knox's doctrine," says Melville. This cheerful entertainment was presented ...

— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang

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