pinging
present participle ofping
ping
verb
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to make ashort,sharpsound:
Weheardasmallstoneping againstourwindow.
[T]informal
tosendanemail,text, or otherkindofmessage,especiallyto someone'smobilephone:
Ping me anemail.
It is alegalrequirementto self-isolate after being pinged by the COVID-19app.
[T]computingspecialized
tosendamessageto anothercomputerin anetworktocheckwhetheryourcomputerisconnectedto it
[I]US(UKpink)
When acarenginepings, it makes a highknockingsoundbecause thefuelis notburningcorrectly.
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- babble
- blaze
- bong
- chuff
- clatter
- click away
- clicker
- clinking
- clunk
- crump
- growl
- gunshot
- hiss
- jangling
- plunk
- scrunch
- sonic boom
- tick
- white noise
- whoosh
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
In a sustained tour de force of increasing density, the voice, having struggled into articulacy, finds itself beset withpingingelectronic attacks.
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However, to cope with advanced timing, one must run high-octane gasoline to avoid pre-ignition detonation orpinging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After 09:30, no furtherpingingwas heard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In internal combustion engines it is called engine knocking orpinging, and it causes a loss of power and excessive heating of certain components.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Within two and one-half hours, she had left thepingingof the searchers behind and had resumed her own hunting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many silent calls are a result of process known aspinging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, even though they were subtle inpingingtheir targets, forty-seven of them were eventually detected, or else ran out of power.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One of his first major research projects was on the problems of irregular combustion, known as "knocking" or "pinging".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Services include traffic analysis (hits, feeds' click-through rate, items' click-through rate) andpingingto web-aggregators and directories.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This causes much higher pressures than engine components are designed for and can cause a knocking orpingingsound.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As she reloaded, the enemy destroyers closed in,pinging, but no depth charges came.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By 2043, the three remaining destroyers were overhead,pinging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The spark plugs are used as sensors to detect combustion and pre-ignition/pinging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For the vast majority of vehicles (i.e. vehicles with "standard" compression ratios), standard-octane fuel will work fine and not causepinging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Almost immediately the submariners picked up new soundstwo more escorts,pingingand coming aggressively closer.
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