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▪ I. ping, n.|pɪŋ|
Also reduplicated.
[Echoic.]
a. An abrupt ringing sound, such as that made by a rifle bullet in flying through the air, by a mosquito, the ringing of an electric bell, etc.
1835J. E. Alexander Sk. Portugal xi. 262 If a button was shown, ‘ping’ went a bullet at it immediately. 1856Sebastopol i. xi. 132 The sharp ‘ping’ of a Minié bullet. 1861W. B. Brooke Out w. Garibaldi iii. 24 The ‘ping, ping’ of rifle bullets whizzing over one's head. 1880Gill River Gold. S. II. vii. 258 The ping of the mosquitoes which was heard for the first time for many a long day. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 132 Mosquitoes..With a wild ping of joy..made for me. 1909Kipling Rewards & Fairies (1910) 272 Ping-ping-ping went the bicycle bell round the corner. 1921D. H. Lawrence in Hutchinson's Mag. Nov. 463/1 They were interrupted by the ping of the shop-bell. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement v. 263 She sent the typewriter carriage flying along. It gave a sharp ping. 1957H. Nicolson Diary 5 Oct. (1968) 339 The Russians have released a satellite... The B.B.C. have managed to record the signals, and play them over to us—just ping, ping, ping, ping. 1960N. Hilliard in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 235 They rested..listening to the..ping-ping-ping of crossing bells. 1977New Yorker 20 June 94/3 Everyone assembled for an ostinato unison figure, and the music subsided with a string of tinkles and hums and pings.
b. A very short pulse of high-pitched, usu. ultrasonic, sound such as is emitted by sonar; also, a pulse of audible sound by which this is represented to a user of such equipment.
1943Penguin New Writing XVIII. 27 ‘Daisy had a ping about an hour ago... We're doing an Asdic sweep.’.. A ‘ping’ is the slang term for an echo. 1946Sci. Illustr. May 83/1 The sounds, or ‘pings’, sonar sends out are not at all like sounds to you and me. They are supersonic. 1956Deep-Sea Res. III. 267 The system had a repetition rate of about 10 pings per second and a ping length of about two milliseconds. 1960[see pinger 1 a]. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. IX. 252/2 The Swallow-type neutrally buoyant float is a mid-depth current meter..which..can float at a predetermined depth... It emits acoustic pings which can be heard for several miles from a quiet ship equipped with appropriate sound gear. 1967J. B. Hersey Deep-Sea Photogr. iv. 59/1 It was possible to obtain the height of camera above bottom simply by measuring the time interval between the arrival at the ship of the sound pulse, or ping, and its bottom echo.
c. Also ping-man. (See quots.) slang.
1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 135 Ping-man, an Asdic operator. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 142 Ping, an Asdic officer or rating.
d. = pink n.6 3.
More usual than pink in the U.S. and Australia.
1927Dyke's Automobile & Gasoline Engine Encycl. Suppl. 1313/1 Engineers began an investigation as to the causes of pre-ignition and ping in an engine burning the present-day gasoline. 1942Pop. Sci. Mar. 137/2 A slight ping when you step on the gas hard does not always mean trouble. 1953H. R. Ricardo High-Speed Internal-Combustion Engine ii. 27 The mechanism of detonation is the setting-up within the cylinder of a pressure wave travelling at so high a velocity as, by its impact against the cylinder walls, to set them in vibration and thus give rise to a high-pitched ‘ping’. 1958S.A.E. Jrnl. Sept. 73/1 Rumble..is distinct from the high frequency spark knock or wild ping most people have heard. 1977Pop. Mechanics May 49/2 My 1976 Ford Pinto with a 2.3-liter, four-cylinder engine has had a bad ping almost from day one.
▪ II. ping, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|pɪŋ|
Forms: 1 pyngan, pingan, 3 pungen (ü), (pa. tense puinde), 4 punge, pyngen, pingen, 9 dial. ping.
[OE. pyngan:—*pungian, ad. L. pungĕre to prick.
(The mod. dial. vb. has strong and mixed forms of pa. tense and pa. pple. pung, pung'd.)]
trans. and intr. To prick; to poke, push, urge.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xl. 297 He wærlice hine pynge mid sumum wordum ðæt he on ðæm onᵹietan mæᵹe [etc.]. c1205Lay. 23933 Arður ut mid his sweorde..and puinden [c 1275 pungde] uppen Frolle. a1330Otuel 779 He pingde his stede wiþ spores kene. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ix. 88 A pyk is in þe potent to punge a-doun þe wikkede. c1380Sir Ferumb. 1248 Þe prisoun dore than wend heo ner & putte hure staf an vnder As sche wolde þe dore to-breke sche gan þo hebbe & pynge. 1382Wyclif Prov. xii. 18 Ther is that behoteth, and as with a swerd is pungid to the conscience. 1746Exmoor Scold. 255 (E.D.S.) Tha wud'st ha' borst en to Shivers, nif chad net a vung en, and pung'd en back agen. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Ping, to push. 1876O. Madox-Brown Dwale Bluth ii. iii, I wish they'd gie thy cat ter th' butcher, ter naup and ping loose ower the moor-yavils out there.
▪ III. ping, v.2|pɪŋ|
[Echoic: cf. ping n.]
1. a. intr. To make an abrupt ringing sound like that of a rifle bullet; to fly with such a sound. Also const. out and fig.
1855Illustr. Lond. News 15 Sept. 326/1 Rifle-bullets..‘pinging’ over their heads. 1878W. C. Smith Hilda among Broken Gods (1879) 242 Balls from the rifle-pits ping about. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix. 195 A footman..stood..waiting for an order to ping out, staccato, through the hum. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement iii. 96 The typewriters rattled and pinged, the telephone bell rang. a1963S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 53 The glass..will ping like a Chinese chime. 1967Listener 16 Nov. 647/3 Words and concepts heard nowhere else pinged out on Third Programme drama. 1974W. J. Burley Death in Stanley St. v. 90 He went in, the door bell pinged. 1978T. Willis Buckingham Palace Connection viii. 151 A bullet pinged against the plating.
b. = pink v.3 2.
1942Pop. Sci. Mar. 136/1 Let's assume it is a couple of months from now, and that best available gas makes your car engine ping—or worse, knock—on a pick-up or a hard pull.
2. a. trans. To cause to make such a sound. Also fig.
1746Exmoor Scolding (1879) 52 Tha wud'st ha' borst en to Shivers, nif chad net a vung en, and pung'd en back agen. 1902Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 2/1 Automobiles that pinged their warning gongs. 1921D. H. Lawrence in Hutchinson's Mag. Nov. 462/2 They ‘pinged’ the door-bell, and her aunt came running forward out of the kitchen. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 32 The air grew ice-cold and pinged our ears. 1961J. H. Ford Mountains of Gilead v. 128 A room complete with moths pinging the light. 1974‘P. B. Yuill’ Bornless Keeper vii. 64 There was nobody at the little alcove marked Reception. Victoria pinged the bell.
b. To fire or discharge (a missile) with a pinging sound. Also transf.
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xiii. 297 We..ping pellets in class. 1977A. C. H. Smith Jericho Gun xiii. 171 He was able to ping off three one-shots.
Hence ˈpinging ppl. a.
1865Daily Tel. 29 May, The visit of pinging balls and cracking shells.
Add:[2.] c. Racing colloq. Of a horse: to jump (a fence) well; also, to leave (the starting stalls, etc.) swiftly.
1981Champion & Powell Champion's Story xviii. 193 As we came to the fence Aldaniti stood off far too far away, pinged it, but came down much too steep. 1983Hughes & Watson Long live National 47 Aldaniti..saw a nice long stride, took off and really pinged it. 1986Times 6 May 35/8 The winner..was smoothly ridden by George Duffield who reported: ‘She did not ping the stalls too well, but ran really well.’ |