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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
ping (plural pings)
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- Coordinate terms: beep, peep
- My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 89:
- With a sudden ping, there was a rabbit there in the black labyrinth with him[.]
- (submarine navigation) 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.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
- (networking) Latency.
- 2000 April 4, CaPRubberchecks, “Low-Ping servers...YIKES!”, in alt.games.starsiege.tribes (Usenet):
- 2000 November 8, the_mad...@my-deja.com, “HL DM with a low ping.......”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet):
- "You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"
> > And other such insights into why I was winning.
- 2001 August 2, Asha, “high ping in cs low ping outside cs??”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet):
- 2002 June 24, drip, “Bandwidth - Lagtime”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet):
- Your best bet to negate lag is to go to a server using the zero ping mutator. This will compensate for your high ping when using a pistol, sniper or […]
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound
a pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound
a packet which a remote host is expected to echo
Verb
ping (third-person singular simple present pings, present participle pinging, simple past pinged or (nonstandard) pang, past participle pinged or (nonstandard) pang or (nonstandard) pung)
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- My car was pinging until my last oil change.
- 2013, Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew:
- The microwave pinged. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the timer again.
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- Coordinate term: poll
- I'm pinging their server.
- The server pings its affiliates periodically.
- 2008, Allan Reid, Jim Lorenz, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP, Cisco Press, →ISBN:
- Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- Coordinate term: buzz
- I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
- 2001 November 25, William Safire, “On Language; The Arab Street”, in New York Times:
- If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't ping me; I'll ping you.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
- (colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
- The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- (colloquial) To penalize.
- Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- Bob has two kids, but he really pings.
- 2022, Maxim Jakubowski, The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories:
- Plus, he pings her gaydar big time, although there's nothing obvious about it in his comportment.
Derived terms
Translations
to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound
to emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects
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to send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present
to send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response
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Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Latin impingō, with the loss of the initial prefix, or from a root *pingō instead of pangō. Compare Daco-Romanian împinge, împing.
Verb
ping (participle pimte)
- to push
Related terms
- pindzeri
- pimt
- pimsh
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
ping
- (transitive, networking) to ping
Noun
ping
- (video games) latency
Galician
Etymology
Noun
ping m (plural pings)
Javanese
Etymology
From Old Javanese piṅ.
Determiner
ping
Mandarin
Romanization
ping
- nonstandard spelling of pīng
- nonstandard spelling of píng
- nonstandard spelling of pǐng
- nonstandard spelling of pìng
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ping m (plural pings)
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ping (definite accusative pingi, plural pingler)
Declension
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