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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



... your head down, Jim,' said McCuaig. That's the very last words he said to him, just as he was leavin' him. He wasn't down the next day when bang! goes Jim's rifle, and again up he jumps to see what he'd got, when ping! goes a Boche bullet right through his head. You know McCuaig was real mad, and he stood quiet at that hole for three hours. Then he got Corporal Thom to shove up a hat on a rifle, when ping! comes the bullet and bang! goes Jim's rifle. 'Guess he won't shoot no more, unless there's ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor
... who writes merely for the stage, who squeezes the breath out of life before he has suited it to his purpose, is at the best only playing a clever game with us. He may amuse us, but he is only playing ping-pong with the emotions. And that is why we should welcome, I think, any honest attempt to deal with life as it is, even if life as it is does not always come into ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons
... 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 a ...
— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet
... it, but no sign was left upon the body found which would indicate that he had been brought to his death by a ball, which also goes farther to prove the probability of the murder of two men. They buried them, as they state, about one-half mile apart, strip ping the clothes off from one, which they took along with them in the buggy, and made their way to the Maumee river. Not thinking it politic to cross at the toll-bridge, they went up to the ford, near Fort Meigs, and found the river not in a fording state. ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green
... later two black 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 waste ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson


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