ping has definitions from the field of geography
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[ verb ] hit with a pinging noise

Examples

"The bugs pinged the lamp shade"

Used in print

(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving .

Related terms

hit

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[ verb ] sound like a car engine that is firing too early

Synonyms

pink knock

Examples

"the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline" "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"

Related terms

go knock

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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 3777
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[ noun ] (geography) a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya

Synonyms

ping_river

Related terms

river Thailand

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[ verb ] send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active

Examples

"ping your machine in the office"

Related terms

reach computer_science

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[ verb ] contact, usually in order to remind of something

Examples

"I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing"

Related terms

reach

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[ verb ] make a short high-pitched sound

Examples

"the bullet pinged when they struck the car"

Related terms

go

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11168
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[ noun ] a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)

Related terms

sound

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