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say it: ping
ping is a verb and noun meaning "hit with a pinging noise". It is pronounced /ˈpɪŋ/ — ping. It carries 7 recorded senses.
make a short high-pitched sound
“the bullet pinged when they struck the car”
contact, usually in order to remind of something
“I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing”
send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
“ping your machine in the office”
computer science
a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya
a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.