Pingname

• 1

  A surname.

• 2

  A female given name.

pingnoun/pɪŋ/

• 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.
  • With a sudden ping, there was a rabbit there in the black labyrinth with him[.]
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  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.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsA packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

  • The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
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  An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.

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

  • "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 […]
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  video-gamesA means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.

• 7

  A notification.

pingverb/pɪŋ/

• 1

  To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

  • My car was pinging until my last oil change.
  • The microwave pinged. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the timer again.
• 2

  To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.

• 3

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo 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.
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  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.
  • If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't ping me; I'll ping you.
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  To flick.

  • I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
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  To bounce.

  • 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.
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  hobbieslifestylesportsTo cause something to bounce.

  • Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.
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  hobbieslifestylesportsTo call out audibly.

  • 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.