English
ding
see also: Ding
Pronunciation
  • (British, America) IPA: /dɪŋ/
Noun

ding (plural dings)

  1. (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
    • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs ↗”, BBC Wales, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141005150805/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml archived on 5 October 2014]:
      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.
  2. (colloquial) A rejection.
    I just got my first ding letter.
Translations
  • Spanish: raspadura, raspón
Verb

ding (dings, present participle dinging; past dinged, past participle dinged)

  1. (transitive) To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
    • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Vnlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664 ↗:
      to ding the book a coit's distance from him
  3. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
    • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs ↗”, BBC Wales, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141005150805/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml archived on 5 October 2014]:
      If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.
  4. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
    His top school dinged him last week.
  5. (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
    My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
  6. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
Translations
  • French: bigner
  • Russian: стукнуть
Translations
  • French: bigner
  • Russian: повреждать
Translations
  • Russian: штрафовать
Noun

ding (plural dings)

  1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
  2. (colloquial, RPG, especially, video games) The act of levelling up.
Translations
  • Russian: дзынь
Verb

ding (dings, present participle dinging; past and past participle dinged)

  1. (intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
    • The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
  2. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
    • 1884, Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists
      If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial, RPG, especially, video games) To level up.
Noun

ding (plural dings)

  1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
Ding
Proper noun
  1. (historical Chinese geography) A prefecture of imperial China within present-day Hebei under the Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang dynasties, with its seat at Dingzhou.
  2. (historical Chinese geography) A county of Republican China in Hebei Province.
Synonyms

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