Pronunciations (2)
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/dɪŋ/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
- US
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/ˈdɪŋɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- Midlands
- Northern-England
Noun
Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
Usage- Informal
- Examples
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Mike hit the bottom and picked up a little ding on his head.
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If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles.
A rejection.
Usage- Colloquial
- Examples
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I just got my first ding letter.
Verb
To hit or strike.
Usage- Transitive
To dash; to throw violently.
- Examples
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to ding the book a coit's distance from him
The butcher's axe (like great Alcides' bat) / Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat.
To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
Usage- Colloquial
- Transitive
- Examples
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If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.
To fire or reject.
Usage- Colloquial
- Transitive
- Examples
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His top school dinged him last week.
To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
Usage- Colloquial
- Transitive
- Examples
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My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
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[…] [E]mployees don't feel like they're going to get dinged on performance reviews because they had the same goals as a guy who had been there all 12 months with no leave.
To mishit (a golf ball).
Usage- Transitive
To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
Usage- Scotland
- of rain
- Examples
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The night turn'd dark an' dang on rain, […]
An awfu' show'r o' sna' and drift / As ever dang down frae the lift; / Right wild an' monstrous Boreas roar'd.
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It's dingin' on, isn't?
Noun
The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
The act of levelling up.
Usage- Colloquial
- especially
Verb
To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
Usage- Intransitive
- Examples
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The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.
To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.
To level up.
Usage- Colloquial
- especially
- Intransitive
Noun
An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
Noun
An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
Usage- Hong-Kong
Noun
an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
Usage- Australia
- Western
- ethnic
- Offensive
- slur
Noun
In American Chinese cuisine, cubed or bite-sized meat.
Usage- Uncountable
- Examples
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shrimp ding
chicken ding
Noun
a ringing sound
- Broader terms
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
Verb
go ‘ding dong’, like a bell