Ding

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ding
    n 1: a ringing sound
    2: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: {dent},
       {ding}, {gouge}, {nick}]
    v 1: go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: {ding}, {dong},
         {dingdong}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ding \Ding\ (d[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dinged}, {Dang}
   (Obs.), or {Dung} (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dinging}.] [OE.
   dingen, dengen; akin to AS. dencgan to knock, Icel. dengja to
   beat, hammer, Sw. d[aum]nga, G. dengeln.]
   1. To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
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            To ding the book a coit's distance from him.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. To cause to sound or ring.
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   {To ding (anything) in one's ears}, to impress one by noisy
      repetition, as if by hammering.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ding \Ding\, v. i.
   1. To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.]
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            Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. --Piers
                                                  Plowman.
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   2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
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            The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore
            dinging among the mountain echoes.    --W. Irving.
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   3. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to
      bluster. [Low]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ding \Ding\, n.
   A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
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from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
ding
 n.,vi.

   1. Synonym for {feep}. Usage: rare among hackers, but more common in
   the {Real World}.

   2. dinged: What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor
   bitching about something, esp. something trivial. "I was dinged for
   having a messy desk."
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
ding

   1. Synonym for {feep}.  Usage: rare among hackers, but
   commoner in the {Real World}.

   2. "dinged": What happens when someone in authority gives you
   a minor bitching about something, especially something
   trivial.  "I was dinged for having a messy desk."

   [{Jargon File}]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "ding":
      bang, bash, beat, belt, best, better, biff, catch, change ringing,
      chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking,
      clink, clout, crack, din, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle,
      dong, donging, douse, drum, exceed, gong, hammer, hit, jangle,
      jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling,
      nail, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outshine, peal, peal ringing,
      pealing, pound, ring, ring changes, ringing, slam, slosh, smack,
      sock, sound, sound a knell, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling,
      tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling,
      whack, whop
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