Meaning

7 senses
  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.

    a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)

  2. 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.

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

    The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.

  4. (Internet)An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.

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

  5. Latency.

  6. A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.

  7. A notification.

Examples

30 sentences
  1. Tom and Mary are still playing ping pong.

    Том та Мері все ще грають у настільний теніс. — deniko

    ruТом и Мэри всё ещё играют в настольный теннис. — wess

    deTom und Maria spielen noch immer Tischtennis. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Ping pong is also called table tennis.

    Пінг-понг також називають настільним тенісом. — deniko

    ruПинг-понг называют также настольным теннисом. — Vixen96

    dePingpong nennt man auch Tischtennis. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom and Mary played ping pong.

    ruТом и Мэри играли в пинг-понг. — odexed

  4. How well can you play ping-pong?

  5. Tom can't remember which ping-pong paddle is his.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce,

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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Forms

plural: pings
Singularping
Pluralpings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya:Ping River

Word family

8 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • ping pong
  • play ping pong
  • play ping

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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