Definition of ping in English:

ping

noun pɪŋpɪŋ

1A short, high-pitched ringing sound.
砰，乒，铛，咻
the ping of the oven timer
Example sentencesExamples
- Do you find that showing pings on the archive pages, but not rebuilding them when pinged, gives you more multiple pings?
- Walking into an arcade shop where there's all those arcade games and noises going left right and centre and beeps and pings, I hear that type of noise in day to day life.
- After all the dirt has been cleaned away, the contraption retiles the remaining shards of the bird's voices into a mosaic of noticeably cold bleeps and pings.
- Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
- He could hear the pings from ricocheting bullets as well as the dull thuds from direct impacts.
- The pings could sound like dinner bells to the animals, letting them know where to find fast food caught in a net.
- I could hardly hear the various beeps and pings over the fog machine.
- The brass bed frame was bent and it echoed with a sharp ping.
- The steel sparked, flashing in the half-light like lightning bugs in a cacophony of musical pings!
- My head was consumed with these thoughts, when I heard a ping and the distinctive sound of a message being announced over a PA system.
- She hears, from the right phone, the metallic ping of an off center echo: ‘Hello?’
- Its low-frequency ping can last 100 seconds, can travel hundreds of miles, and harass and displace whales from their feeding and breeding grounds.
- Just think of the reverberations created with all those pings and clicks!
- The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?)
- Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle.
- It will be interesting now to see, when the oven pings, if the whole confection really is a recipe for success.
- This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes.
- The gun's trigger guard cracked with a high-pitched ping, but the sound was pretty much lost in the screaming.
- It emits pings and listens for echoes bouncing back from small particles in the water.
- The ping or beep that signals a new e-mail exploits the human capacity for infinite distraction, guaranteeing it will take priority over other tasks that might be more important, even though they seem less urgent.
Synonyms
ring, chime, peal, ding, ping, clink, chink, jingle, jangle
1. 1.1US A rattling sound made by an engine as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders.

verb pɪŋpɪŋ

1Make or cause to make a short, high-pitched ringing sound.
砰，乒，铛，咻
no object the doorbell pinged
门铃铛的一声响了。
with object Victoria pinged the bell
维多利亚铛地敲了一下钟。
Example sentencesExamples
- When I woke the guys were here cutting the grass and the alarm was pinging gently to remind me it was time to get ready and go get my chest x-ray.
- Several monitors clicked and pinged for both men, as Corpsman Frank Lerner moved between the two gurneys, watching silently.
- Pereira had held off his man and slipped the ball back to the fullback, who weaved his way in to the box and side-footed his shot past Marshall only for the ball to ping off the base of the post.
- My mouth stayed firmly shut as insects pinged off my sunglasses.
- He laughed and as the lift pinged at the garage, his hands settled over my eyes,
- Bloggers use pinging to let blog tracking services such as Weblogs.com that their weblog has been updated.
- Then, like a grand old tree succumbing to the woodman's axe, Mary's Dad keeled over forwards onto his face, his putter pinging away, bent double by the impact of body and ground.
- As elastic bands pinged across the classroom, I reached in desperation for a book.
- It involves a rubber band that I wear round my wrist which I ping against my skin whenever my thoughts run away with me.
- Before his feelings could still properly be registered, the elevator pinged, announcing the arrival of the 13 th floor.
- Instead of being a taut, minimal straight line, I'm a curvy, springy, unmarshalled dithering thing, unable to ping, ding or ker-ching.
- Their sensors consisted of a box that pinged whenever something was nearby.
- Ward got another nudge which Barton blocked and the ball pinged up from their clash and smacked the unfortunate Mills in the face before finally looping into the net.
- But everyone at the Castle watches the baseballs as they come thwocking out of these huge pitching machines, pinging off the aluminum bats and ricocheting against the chain-link roof of the cages.
- A new light pinged, indicating an attachment on the hull.
- Bullets were pinging off our armor all over our vehicle.
- The sergeant was interrupted by the sound of machine gun bullets pinging on the craft's armor.
- At intervals the washer pinged, I hit Save and toddled along to move the loads along, picking up the next heap as I went and shuffling it along the floor in front of me.
- Sniper shots zipped by, pinging off the Humvee.
- Then came chaos: bullets pinging off trucks, grenades kicking up clouds of dirt and concrete, and, he says, noise louder than anything he imagined possible.
- The clanking of the phone as it hit the cradle pinged through the hallway, the echo tingling through Wil's spine and making his neck hair stand on end.
- On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings.
- My dosimeter starts pinging after three hours.
- When the lift came to a halt and the doors pinged open with a pleasant ding the girls dragged the bags down the hallway, stopping outside of the apartment while Forever searched for her keys.
- The sound has pierced through the windows and is pinging off the stone walls in the courtyard.
- Eventually he rams it into gear and inches it backward as the line tightens slowly until a sound like a rifle report pings through the chassis.
Synonyms
clank, clink, jingle, tinkle, ding, clang, clash, clatter, rattle, vibrate, ring, chime
2Computing
with object Query (another computer on a network) to determine whether there is a connection to it.
〔计算机〕查验（网络上的其他电脑）
Example sentencesExamples
- Again, test your gateway by accessing an external site (use ping or your web browser or whatever).
- Try pinging or otherwise connecting to hosts on the remote network; the connection should behave no differently from before when you brought the tunnel up.
- While that had been a very good thing for ping, FTP and TELNET, it was now a very bad thing.
- The laptop sitting on the center console continuously pinging at the networks being discovered.
- To test your IPv6 connection, first try pinging something with the ping6 program on both the gateway and a connected host.
1. 2.1 Send an electronic message to (someone)
  给（某人）发送邮件（或其他电子文档）
  at least a dozen people have pinged me or called to tell me this
  至少有12人发邮件或打电话告知我这件事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I guess you could think of pinging as eye contact via mobile phone; just enough information is conveyed to be useful, but not so much that it disrupts what you're already doing.
  I have tried unsuccessfully to ping it so I've decided to re-post my article.
  I've also reached my limit with people pinging me with trackbacks and when I go look at the post they wrote, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the post they trackbacked me on.
  I got quite a few emails in response to my post on sweethearting / pinging.
  I just tested it out with my previous post, pinging this thread.
  The computer pinged to us at the appropriate time, causing both of us to jog forward to the cockpit and take our places.
  I've pinged my kids on interest in building their own web site, or programming, No interest so far.
  I was pinged this morning by Peter Quintas, who told me that Silk Road has acquired some moblogging technology.
  Sorry about the multiple pings, Mt went a little bezerk and didn't realize it had already pinged you when I edited the entry. sorry.
  She is probably happiest when you are not pinging her at all.
  On Tuesday, I pinged Technorati two more times when I updated here.
  On their end, they see something like ‘Jason pinged you at 7: 34 pm’ with the option to ping right back.
  According to this very-cool story about mobile-phone culture in Japan, the kids use texting as a way to ping one another.
  Why don't I have more people pinging me?
  If I go back to the Edit Entry screen and refresh it, all the pings are still listed as ‘URLs to Ping’, rather than as ‘Previous pings sent’.
  The simplest way get your weblog included in the Technorati index is to ping us whenever you update your weblog.
  Marc Canter pinged me about a newly launched feature at Tribe.net: support for RSS output of Tribe's message boards.
  Some people ping us directly, and most of the rest comes from blogs - which polls Weblogs.com once an hour.
  To get blogs is easy nowadays and so you just spam by writing pseudo blogs and linking and pinging.
  On that one, Chubby was pinged with the obvious question as to which town it should be as big as.
3US
the engine pinged and strained, but they picked up speed
another term for pink

Origin

Mid 19th century: imitative.

This word imitates the noise. The game ping-pong got its name in the early 20th century from the sound of a bat striking a ball.

Rhymes

Beijing, bing, bring, Chungking, cling, ding, dingaling, fling, I Ching, king, Kunming, ling, Ming, Nanjing, Peking, ring, sing, Singh, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, Synge, thing, ting, wing, wring, Xining, zing

Definition of ping in US English:

ping

nounpɪŋpiNG

1A short, high-pitched ringing sound.
砰，乒，铛，咻
the ping of the oven timer
Example sentencesExamples
- My head was consumed with these thoughts, when I heard a ping and the distinctive sound of a message being announced over a PA system.
- Just think of the reverberations created with all those pings and clicks!
- Its low-frequency ping can last 100 seconds, can travel hundreds of miles, and harass and displace whales from their feeding and breeding grounds.
- Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle.
- The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?)
- The brass bed frame was bent and it echoed with a sharp ping.
- The gun's trigger guard cracked with a high-pitched ping, but the sound was pretty much lost in the screaming.
- Do you find that showing pings on the archive pages, but not rebuilding them when pinged, gives you more multiple pings?
- This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes.
- Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
- The ping or beep that signals a new e-mail exploits the human capacity for infinite distraction, guaranteeing it will take priority over other tasks that might be more important, even though they seem less urgent.
- Walking into an arcade shop where there's all those arcade games and noises going left right and centre and beeps and pings, I hear that type of noise in day to day life.
- The pings could sound like dinner bells to the animals, letting them know where to find fast food caught in a net.
- The steel sparked, flashing in the half-light like lightning bugs in a cacophony of musical pings!
- She hears, from the right phone, the metallic ping of an off center echo: ‘Hello?’
- He could hear the pings from ricocheting bullets as well as the dull thuds from direct impacts.
- I could hardly hear the various beeps and pings over the fog machine.
- It emits pings and listens for echoes bouncing back from small particles in the water.
- After all the dirt has been cleaned away, the contraption retiles the remaining shards of the bird's voices into a mosaic of noticeably cold bleeps and pings.
- It will be interesting now to see, when the oven pings, if the whole confection really is a recipe for success.
Synonyms
ring, chime, peal, ding, ping, clink, chink, jingle, jangle
1. 1.1US A rattling sound made by an engine as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders.

verbpɪŋpiNG

1Make or cause to make a short, high-pitched ringing sound.
砰，乒，铛，咻
no object the doorbell pinged
门铃铛的一声响了。
with object Victoria pinged the bell
维多利亚铛地敲了一下钟。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sniper shots zipped by, pinging off the Humvee.
- Bloggers use pinging to let blog tracking services such as Weblogs.com that their weblog has been updated.
- The sergeant was interrupted by the sound of machine gun bullets pinging on the craft's armor.
- Instead of being a taut, minimal straight line, I'm a curvy, springy, unmarshalled dithering thing, unable to ping, ding or ker-ching.
- Several monitors clicked and pinged for both men, as Corpsman Frank Lerner moved between the two gurneys, watching silently.
- A new light pinged, indicating an attachment on the hull.
- Bullets were pinging off our armor all over our vehicle.
- On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings.
- The sound has pierced through the windows and is pinging off the stone walls in the courtyard.
- Eventually he rams it into gear and inches it backward as the line tightens slowly until a sound like a rifle report pings through the chassis.
- The clanking of the phone as it hit the cradle pinged through the hallway, the echo tingling through Wil's spine and making his neck hair stand on end.
- Then, like a grand old tree succumbing to the woodman's axe, Mary's Dad keeled over forwards onto his face, his putter pinging away, bent double by the impact of body and ground.
- Their sensors consisted of a box that pinged whenever something was nearby.
- Then came chaos: bullets pinging off trucks, grenades kicking up clouds of dirt and concrete, and, he says, noise louder than anything he imagined possible.
- When I woke the guys were here cutting the grass and the alarm was pinging gently to remind me it was time to get ready and go get my chest x-ray.
- Ward got another nudge which Barton blocked and the ball pinged up from their clash and smacked the unfortunate Mills in the face before finally looping into the net.
- But everyone at the Castle watches the baseballs as they come thwocking out of these huge pitching machines, pinging off the aluminum bats and ricocheting against the chain-link roof of the cages.
- When the lift came to a halt and the doors pinged open with a pleasant ding the girls dragged the bags down the hallway, stopping outside of the apartment while Forever searched for her keys.
- As elastic bands pinged across the classroom, I reached in desperation for a book.
- He laughed and as the lift pinged at the garage, his hands settled over my eyes,
- Pereira had held off his man and slipped the ball back to the fullback, who weaved his way in to the box and side-footed his shot past Marshall only for the ball to ping off the base of the post.
- It involves a rubber band that I wear round my wrist which I ping against my skin whenever my thoughts run away with me.
- At intervals the washer pinged, I hit Save and toddled along to move the loads along, picking up the next heap as I went and shuffling it along the floor in front of me.
- Before his feelings could still properly be registered, the elevator pinged, announcing the arrival of the 13 th floor.
- My dosimeter starts pinging after three hours.
- My mouth stayed firmly shut as insects pinged off my sunglasses.
Synonyms
clank, clink, jingle, tinkle, ding, clang, clash, clatter, rattle, vibrate, ring, chime
2Computing
with object Query (another computer on a network) to determine whether there is a connection to it.
〔计算机〕查验（网络上的其他电脑）
Example sentencesExamples
- Again, test your gateway by accessing an external site (use ping or your web browser or whatever).
- To test your IPv6 connection, first try pinging something with the ping6 program on both the gateway and a connected host.
- While that had been a very good thing for ping, FTP and TELNET, it was now a very bad thing.
- The laptop sitting on the center console continuously pinging at the networks being discovered.
- Try pinging or otherwise connecting to hosts on the remote network; the connection should behave no differently from before when you brought the tunnel up.
1. 2.1 Send an electronic message to (someone)
  给（某人）发送邮件（或其他电子文档）
  he just pinged me, pointing to a breaking news story
  Example sentencesExamples
  The computer pinged to us at the appropriate time, causing both of us to jog forward to the cockpit and take our places.
  She is probably happiest when you are not pinging her at all.
  I guess you could think of pinging as eye contact via mobile phone; just enough information is conveyed to be useful, but not so much that it disrupts what you're already doing.
  On that one, Chubby was pinged with the obvious question as to which town it should be as big as.
  I've pinged my kids on interest in building their own web site, or programming, No interest so far.
  If I go back to the Edit Entry screen and refresh it, all the pings are still listed as ‘URLs to Ping’, rather than as ‘Previous pings sent’.
  To get blogs is easy nowadays and so you just spam by writing pseudo blogs and linking and pinging.
  I just tested it out with my previous post, pinging this thread.
  Some people ping us directly, and most of the rest comes from blogs - which polls Weblogs.com once an hour.
  Sorry about the multiple pings, Mt went a little bezerk and didn't realize it had already pinged you when I edited the entry. sorry.
  On their end, they see something like ‘Jason pinged you at 7: 34 pm’ with the option to ping right back.
  Marc Canter pinged me about a newly launched feature at Tribe.net: support for RSS output of Tribe's message boards.
  The simplest way get your weblog included in the Technorati index is to ping us whenever you update your weblog.
  On Tuesday, I pinged Technorati two more times when I updated here.
  According to this very-cool story about mobile-phone culture in Japan, the kids use texting as a way to ping one another.
  I have tried unsuccessfully to ping it so I've decided to re-post my article.
  I was pinged this morning by Peter Quintas, who told me that Silk Road has acquired some moblogging technology.
  I've also reached my limit with people pinging me with trackbacks and when I go look at the post they wrote, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the post they trackbacked me on.
  Why don't I have more people pinging me?
  I got quite a few emails in response to my post on sweethearting / pinging.
3US (of an engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders.
the engine pinged and strained, but they picked up speed

Origin

Mid 19th century: imitative.

单词	ping
释义	Definition of ping in English: ping noun pɪŋpɪŋ 1A short, high-pitched ringing sound. 砰，乒，铛，咻 the ping of the oven timer Example sentencesExamples Do you find that showing pings on the archive pages, but not rebuilding them when pinged, gives you more multiple pings? Walking into an arcade shop where there's all those arcade games and noises going left right and centre and beeps and pings, I hear that type of noise in day to day life. After all the dirt has been cleaned away, the contraption retiles the remaining shards of the bird's voices into a mosaic of noticeably cold bleeps and pings. Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint. He could hear the pings from ricocheting bullets as well as the dull thuds from direct impacts. The pings could sound like dinner bells to the animals, letting them know where to find fast food caught in a net. I could hardly hear the various beeps and pings over the fog machine. The brass bed frame was bent and it echoed with a sharp ping. The steel sparked, flashing in the half-light like lightning bugs in a cacophony of musical pings! My head was consumed with these thoughts, when I heard a ping and the distinctive sound of a message being announced over a PA system. She hears, from the right phone, the metallic ping of an off center echo: ‘Hello?’ Its low-frequency ping can last 100 seconds, can travel hundreds of miles, and harass and displace whales from their feeding and breeding grounds. Just think of the reverberations created with all those pings and clicks! The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?) Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle. It will be interesting now to see, when the oven pings, if the whole confection really is a recipe for success. This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes. The gun's trigger guard cracked with a high-pitched ping, but the sound was pretty much lost in the screaming. It emits pings and listens for echoes bouncing back from small particles in the water. The ping or beep that signals a new e-mail exploits the human capacity for infinite distraction, guaranteeing it will take priority over other tasks that might be more important, even though they seem less urgent. Synonyms ring, chime, peal, ding, ping, clink, chink, jingle, jangle 1.1US A rattling sound made by an engine as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders. verb pɪŋpɪŋ 1Make or cause to make a short, high-pitched ringing sound. 砰，乒，铛，咻 no object the doorbell pinged 门铃铛的一声响了。 with object Victoria pinged the bell 维多利亚铛地敲了一下钟。 Example sentencesExamples When I woke the guys were here cutting the grass and the alarm was pinging gently to remind me it was time to get ready and go get my chest x-ray. Several monitors clicked and pinged for both men, as Corpsman Frank Lerner moved between the two gurneys, watching silently. Pereira had held off his man and slipped the ball back to the fullback, who weaved his way in to the box and side-footed his shot past Marshall only for the ball to ping off the base of the post. My mouth stayed firmly shut as insects pinged off my sunglasses. He laughed and as the lift pinged at the garage, his hands settled over my eyes, Bloggers use pinging to let blog tracking services such as Weblogs.com that their weblog has been updated. Then, like a grand old tree succumbing to the woodman's axe, Mary's Dad keeled over forwards onto his face, his putter pinging away, bent double by the impact of body and ground. As elastic bands pinged across the classroom, I reached in desperation for a book. It involves a rubber band that I wear round my wrist which I ping against my skin whenever my thoughts run away with me. Before his feelings could still properly be registered, the elevator pinged, announcing the arrival of the 13 th floor. Instead of being a taut, minimal straight line, I'm a curvy, springy, unmarshalled dithering thing, unable to ping, ding or ker-ching. Their sensors consisted of a box that pinged whenever something was nearby. Ward got another nudge which Barton blocked and the ball pinged up from their clash and smacked the unfortunate Mills in the face before finally looping into the net. But everyone at the Castle watches the baseballs as they come thwocking out of these huge pitching machines, pinging off the aluminum bats and ricocheting against the chain-link roof of the cages. A new light pinged, indicating an attachment on the hull. Bullets were pinging off our armor all over our vehicle. The sergeant was interrupted by the sound of machine gun bullets pinging on the craft's armor. At intervals the washer pinged, I hit Save and toddled along to move the loads along, picking up the next heap as I went and shuffling it along the floor in front of me. Sniper shots zipped by, pinging off the Humvee. Then came chaos: bullets pinging off trucks, grenades kicking up clouds of dirt and concrete, and, he says, noise louder than anything he imagined possible. The clanking of the phone as it hit the cradle pinged through the hallway, the echo tingling through Wil's spine and making his neck hair stand on end. On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings. My dosimeter starts pinging after three hours. When the lift came to a halt and the doors pinged open with a pleasant ding the girls dragged the bags down the hallway, stopping outside of the apartment while Forever searched for her keys. The sound has pierced through the windows and is pinging off the stone walls in the courtyard. Eventually he rams it into gear and inches it backward as the line tightens slowly until a sound like a rifle report pings through the chassis. Synonyms clank, clink, jingle, tinkle, ding, clang, clash, clatter, rattle, vibrate, ring, chime 2Computing with object Query (another computer on a network) to determine whether there is a connection to it. 〔计算机〕查验（网络上的其他电脑） Example sentencesExamples Again, test your gateway by accessing an external site (use ping or your web browser or whatever). Try pinging or otherwise connecting to hosts on the remote network; the connection should behave no differently from before when you brought the tunnel up. While that had been a very good thing for ping, FTP and TELNET, it was now a very bad thing. The laptop sitting on the center console continuously pinging at the networks being discovered. To test your IPv6 connection, first try pinging something with the ping6 program on both the gateway and a connected host. 2.1 Send an electronic message to (someone) 给（某人）发送邮件（或其他电子文档） at least a dozen people have pinged me or called to tell me this 至少有12人发邮件或打电话告知我这件事。 Example sentencesExamples I guess you could think of pinging as eye contact via mobile phone; just enough information is conveyed to be useful, but not so much that it disrupts what you're already doing. I have tried unsuccessfully to ping it so I've decided to re-post my article. I've also reached my limit with people pinging me with trackbacks and when I go look at the post they wrote, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the post they trackbacked me on. I got quite a few emails in response to my post on sweethearting / pinging. I just tested it out with my previous post, pinging this thread. The computer pinged to us at the appropriate time, causing both of us to jog forward to the cockpit and take our places. I've pinged my kids on interest in building their own web site, or programming, No interest so far. I was pinged this morning by Peter Quintas, who told me that Silk Road has acquired some moblogging technology. Sorry about the multiple pings, Mt went a little bezerk and didn't realize it had already pinged you when I edited the entry. sorry. She is probably happiest when you are not pinging her at all. On Tuesday, I pinged Technorati two more times when I updated here. On their end, they see something like ‘Jason pinged you at 7: 34 pm’ with the option to ping right back. According to this very-cool story about mobile-phone culture in Japan, the kids use texting as a way to ping one another. Why don't I have more people pinging me? If I go back to the Edit Entry screen and refresh it, all the pings are still listed as ‘URLs to Ping’, rather than as ‘Previous pings sent’. The simplest way get your weblog included in the Technorati index is to ping us whenever you update your weblog. Marc Canter pinged me about a newly launched feature at Tribe.net: support for RSS output of Tribe's message boards. Some people ping us directly, and most of the rest comes from blogs - which polls Weblogs.com once an hour. To get blogs is easy nowadays and so you just spam by writing pseudo blogs and linking and pinging. On that one, Chubby was pinged with the obvious question as to which town it should be as big as. 3US the engine pinged and strained, but they picked up speed another term for pink Origin Mid 19th century: imitative. This word imitates the noise. The game ping-pong got its name in the early 20th century from the sound of a bat striking a ball. Rhymes Beijing, bing, bring, Chungking, cling, ding, dingaling, fling, I Ching, king, Kunming, ling, Ming, Nanjing, Peking, ring, sing, Singh, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, Synge, thing, ting, wing, wring, Xining, zing Definition of ping in US English: ping nounpɪŋpiNG 1A short, high-pitched ringing sound. 砰，乒，铛，咻 the ping of the oven timer Example sentencesExamples My head was consumed with these thoughts, when I heard a ping and the distinctive sound of a message being announced over a PA system. Just think of the reverberations created with all those pings and clicks! Its low-frequency ping can last 100 seconds, can travel hundreds of miles, and harass and displace whales from their feeding and breeding grounds. Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle. The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?) The brass bed frame was bent and it echoed with a sharp ping. The gun's trigger guard cracked with a high-pitched ping, but the sound was pretty much lost in the screaming. Do you find that showing pings on the archive pages, but not rebuilding them when pinged, gives you more multiple pings? This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes. Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint. The ping or beep that signals a new e-mail exploits the human capacity for infinite distraction, guaranteeing it will take priority over other tasks that might be more important, even though they seem less urgent. Walking into an arcade shop where there's all those arcade games and noises going left right and centre and beeps and pings, I hear that type of noise in day to day life. The pings could sound like dinner bells to the animals, letting them know where to find fast food caught in a net. The steel sparked, flashing in the half-light like lightning bugs in a cacophony of musical pings! She hears, from the right phone, the metallic ping of an off center echo: ‘Hello?’ He could hear the pings from ricocheting bullets as well as the dull thuds from direct impacts. I could hardly hear the various beeps and pings over the fog machine. It emits pings and listens for echoes bouncing back from small particles in the water. After all the dirt has been cleaned away, the contraption retiles the remaining shards of the bird's voices into a mosaic of noticeably cold bleeps and pings. It will be interesting now to see, when the oven pings, if the whole confection really is a recipe for success. Synonyms ring, chime, peal, ding, ping, clink, chink, jingle, jangle 1.1US A rattling sound made by an engine as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders. verbpɪŋpiNG 1Make or cause to make a short, high-pitched ringing sound. 砰，乒，铛，咻 no object the doorbell pinged 门铃铛的一声响了。 with object Victoria pinged the bell 维多利亚铛地敲了一下钟。 Example sentencesExamples Sniper shots zipped by, pinging off the Humvee. Bloggers use pinging to let blog tracking services such as Weblogs.com that their weblog has been updated. The sergeant was interrupted by the sound of machine gun bullets pinging on the craft's armor. Instead of being a taut, minimal straight line, I'm a curvy, springy, unmarshalled dithering thing, unable to ping, ding or ker-ching. Several monitors clicked and pinged for both men, as Corpsman Frank Lerner moved between the two gurneys, watching silently. A new light pinged, indicating an attachment on the hull. Bullets were pinging off our armor all over our vehicle. On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings. The sound has pierced through the windows and is pinging off the stone walls in the courtyard. Eventually he rams it into gear and inches it backward as the line tightens slowly until a sound like a rifle report pings through the chassis. The clanking of the phone as it hit the cradle pinged through the hallway, the echo tingling through Wil's spine and making his neck hair stand on end. Then, like a grand old tree succumbing to the woodman's axe, Mary's Dad keeled over forwards onto his face, his putter pinging away, bent double by the impact of body and ground. Their sensors consisted of a box that pinged whenever something was nearby. Then came chaos: bullets pinging off trucks, grenades kicking up clouds of dirt and concrete, and, he says, noise louder than anything he imagined possible. When I woke the guys were here cutting the grass and the alarm was pinging gently to remind me it was time to get ready and go get my chest x-ray. Ward got another nudge which Barton blocked and the ball pinged up from their clash and smacked the unfortunate Mills in the face before finally looping into the net. But everyone at the Castle watches the baseballs as they come thwocking out of these huge pitching machines, pinging off the aluminum bats and ricocheting against the chain-link roof of the cages. When the lift came to a halt and the doors pinged open with a pleasant ding the girls dragged the bags down the hallway, stopping outside of the apartment while Forever searched for her keys. As elastic bands pinged across the classroom, I reached in desperation for a book. He laughed and as the lift pinged at the garage, his hands settled over my eyes, Pereira had held off his man and slipped the ball back to the fullback, who weaved his way in to the box and side-footed his shot past Marshall only for the ball to ping off the base of the post. It involves a rubber band that I wear round my wrist which I ping against my skin whenever my thoughts run away with me. At intervals the washer pinged, I hit Save and toddled along to move the loads along, picking up the next heap as I went and shuffling it along the floor in front of me. Before his feelings could still properly be registered, the elevator pinged, announcing the arrival of the 13 th floor. My dosimeter starts pinging after three hours. My mouth stayed firmly shut as insects pinged off my sunglasses. Synonyms clank, clink, jingle, tinkle, ding, clang, clash, clatter, rattle, vibrate, ring, chime 2Computing with object Query (another computer on a network) to determine whether there is a connection to it. 〔计算机〕查验（网络上的其他电脑） Example sentencesExamples Again, test your gateway by accessing an external site (use ping or your web browser or whatever). To test your IPv6 connection, first try pinging something with the ping6 program on both the gateway and a connected host. While that had been a very good thing for ping, FTP and TELNET, it was now a very bad thing. The laptop sitting on the center console continuously pinging at the networks being discovered. Try pinging or otherwise connecting to hosts on the remote network; the connection should behave no differently from before when you brought the tunnel up. 2.1 Send an electronic message to (someone) 给（某人）发送邮件（或其他电子文档） he just pinged me, pointing to a breaking news story Example sentencesExamples The computer pinged to us at the appropriate time, causing both of us to jog forward to the cockpit and take our places. She is probably happiest when you are not pinging her at all. I guess you could think of pinging as eye contact via mobile phone; just enough information is conveyed to be useful, but not so much that it disrupts what you're already doing. On that one, Chubby was pinged with the obvious question as to which town it should be as big as. I've pinged my kids on interest in building their own web site, or programming, No interest so far. If I go back to the Edit Entry screen and refresh it, all the pings are still listed as ‘URLs to Ping’, rather than as ‘Previous pings sent’. To get blogs is easy nowadays and so you just spam by writing pseudo blogs and linking and pinging. I just tested it out with my previous post, pinging this thread. Some people ping us directly, and most of the rest comes from blogs - which polls Weblogs.com once an hour. Sorry about the multiple pings, Mt went a little bezerk and didn't realize it had already pinged you when I edited the entry. sorry. On their end, they see something like ‘Jason pinged you at 7: 34 pm’ with the option to ping right back. Marc Canter pinged me about a newly launched feature at Tribe.net: support for RSS output of Tribe's message boards. The simplest way get your weblog included in the Technorati index is to ping us whenever you update your weblog. On Tuesday, I pinged Technorati two more times when I updated here. According to this very-cool story about mobile-phone culture in Japan, the kids use texting as a way to ping one another. I have tried unsuccessfully to ping it so I've decided to re-post my article. I was pinged this morning by Peter Quintas, who told me that Silk Road has acquired some moblogging technology. I've also reached my limit with people pinging me with trackbacks and when I go look at the post they wrote, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the post they trackbacked me on. Why don't I have more people pinging me? I got quite a few emails in response to my post on sweethearting / pinging. 3US (of an engine) make a series of rattling sounds as a result of over-rapid combustion of the fuel–air mixture in the cylinders. the engine pinged and strained, but they picked up speed Origin Mid 19th century: imitative.
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