ding

See also: Ding, dìng, dīng, dǐng, dìŋ, and ding-

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).

Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną.

Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
   • 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

     Mike hit the bottom and picked up a little ding on his head.

   • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014:

     If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles.

2. (colloquial) A rejection.

   I just got my first ding letter.

Translations

very minor damage

Finnish: kolhu (fi), lommo (fi) Spanish: raspadura f, raspón m

Verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past dinged or (obsolete) dang, past participle dinged or (obsolete) dung)

1. (transitive) To hit or strike.
2. To dash; to throw violently.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     to ding the book a coit's distance from him

   • 1630, Taylor's Works:

     The butcher's axe (like great Alcides' bat) / Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat.

3. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
   • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014:

     If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.

   His top school dinged him last week.

5. (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.

   My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.

   • 2015 August 7, Ron Lieber, “Bringing paternity leave into the mainstream [print version: Paid leave expands for fathers, but will there be any takers?, International New York Times, 10 August 2015, p. 14]”, in The New York Times‎:

     […] [E]mployees don't feel like they're going to get dinged on performance reviews because they had the same goals as a guy who had been there all 12 months with no leave.

6. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).

Derived terms

• ding up

Translations

to hit or strike

French: bigner (fr) Russian: стукнуть (ru) pf (stuknutʹ)

to inflict minor damage on

Finnish: kolhia (fi) French: bigner (fr) Russian: повреждать (ru) (povreždatʹ)

(colloquial) To deduct, as points

Russian: штрафовать (ru) impf (štrafovatʹ)

To mishit (a golf ball)

See also

• dingbat

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
2. (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.

Derived terms

• dingless

Translations

high-pitched sound of a bell

Greek: ντιν (el) n (ntin) Russian: дзынь (dzynʹ) Ukrainian: дзень (uk) (dzenʹ), дзеньк (dzenʹk), дзінь (dzinʹ)

Verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past and past participle dinged)

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

     The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.

2. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
   • 1884, Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists:

     If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.

3. (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.

Derived terms

• dinger

See also

• bud-bud-ding-ding
• ding-a-ling
• ding ding
• ding, ding, ding, we have a winner
• ding dong
• ding dong cart
• ding-dong ditch
• ding-dong theory
• dingthrift
• ring-a-ding

Etymology 3

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

Alternative forms

• ting

Noun

ding (plural dings or ding)

1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Translations

vessel

Chinese: Mandarin: 鼎 (zh) (dǐng) Japanese: 鼎 (ja) (かなえ, kanae), 鼎 (ja) (てい, tei) Korean: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 4

From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

Derived terms

• ding right

Etymology 5

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ding, from Old Dutch thinc, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdəŋ/

• Audio:

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Noun

ding (plural dinge)

1. thing
   • 2016, “Dinge Raak Warm”, in Sal Jy Met My Dans?‎, performed by Kurt Darren, South Africa:

     Dinge raak warm, warm.

     Things are getting hot, hot.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing (“appointment; meeting; matter”). Cognate with German Ding, English thing.

Noun

ding n (plural dingar, diminutive dingale)

1. (Sette Comuni) thing, object

Usage notes

Most often used in the diminutive.

Declension

Declension of ding – 3rd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	's	ding	de	dingar
accusative	an	's	ding	de	dingar
dative	aname	me	dinge	in	dingarn

References

• “ding” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ding
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dinc, from Old Dutch thinc, from Proto-West Germanic *þing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ding n (plural dingen, diminutive dingetje n)

1. matter, thing
   • 2006, Jeroen van Merwijk, “Een Ding”, in Even Iemand Doodslaan:

     Waarom zijn al die dingen daar ineens maar neergezet? / Is er een dingenmotie aangenomen, of een dingenwet? / Dat in elke straat en elke laan voortaan een soort van ding moet staan? / Ik liep laatst over straat en ik zag 'n ding staan

     Why did people put all these things in place all of a sudden? / Has a things motion been passed, or a law on things? / That every street and avenue should have some kind of thing in it from now on? / I was walking down the street the other day and I saw a thing standing around

2. (historical) thing (popular assembly or judicial council in early Germanic society)

Derived terms

• dinges
• dingwoord
• onding
• rotding

Related terms

• dingen
• geding

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ding
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dinggi
• Jersey Dutch: däng

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ding

1. inflection of dingen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative