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English
Pronunciation
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)
- (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.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- I just got my first ding letter.
Translations
Verb
ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past dinged or (obsolete) dang, past participle dinged or (obsolete) dung)
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- 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.
- (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.
- 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014:
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- His top school dinged him last week.
- (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.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
Derived terms
Translations
to inflict minor damage on
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(colloquial) To deduct, as points
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To mishit (a golf ball)
See also
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,
Noun
ding (plural dings)
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
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Translations
Verb
ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past and past participle dinged)
- (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.
- (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.
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
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Etymology 3
Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).
Alternative forms
Noun
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Etymology 4
Noun
ding (plural dings)
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
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Etymology 5
Noun
ding (plural dings)
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch ding, from Old Dutch thinc, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.
Pronunciation
Noun
ding (plural dinge)
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)
Usage notes
Most often used in the diminutive.
Declension
Declension of ding – 3rd declension
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
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)
- 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
- (historical) thing (popular assembly or judicial council in early Germanic society)
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Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
ding
- inflection of dingen:
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