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ping

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noun/pɪŋ/
  1. 1

    A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

    • My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
  2. 2

    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.
  3. 3

    A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

    • The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
  4. 4

    An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.Internet

    • I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
  5. 5

    Latency.

    • "You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!" > > And other such insights into why I was winning.
    • 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 […]
  6. 6

    A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.

  7. 7

    A notification.

verb/pɪŋ/
  1. 1

    To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

    • My car was pinging until my last oil change.
  2. 2

    To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.

  3. 3

    To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.

    • I'm pinging their server.
    • The server pings its affiliates periodically.
  4. 4

    To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.broadly

    • I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
  5. 5

    To flick.colloquial

    • I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
  6. 6

    To bounce.colloquialintransitive

    • The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
  7. 7

    To cause something to bounce.colloquialtransitive

    • Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.
  8. 8

    To call out audibly.colloquial

    • However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.
  9. 9

    To penalize.Australiacolloquial

    • Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.
  10. 10

    To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.ambitransitiveslang

    • Bob has two kids, but he really pings.

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