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Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing 中期英語 pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from 古期英語 pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

発音

• enPR: pĭng; IPA: /pɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋ

名詞

ping (plural pings)

1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

   Coordinate terms: beep, peep

   My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 89:

     With a sudden ping, there was a rabbit there in the black labyrinth with him[.]

2. (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.

   The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.

3. (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

   Coordinate terms: heartbeat, ACK

   The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.

4. (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.

   I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.

5. (networking) Latency.
   • 2000 April 4, CaPRubberchecks, “Low-Ping servers...YIKES!”, in alt.games.starsiege.tribes (Usenet):
   • 2000 November 8, the_mad...@my-deja.com, “HL DM with a low ping.......”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet):

     "You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"
     > > And other such insights into why I was winning.

   • 2001 August 2, Asha, “high ping in cs low ping outside cs??”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet):
   • 2002 June 24, drip, “Bandwidth - Lagtime”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet):

     Your best bet to negate lag is to go to a server using the zero ping mutator. This will compensate for your high ping when using a pistol, sniper or […]

6. (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
7. (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.

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動詞

ping (third-person singular simple present pings, present participle pinging, simple past pinged or (nonstandard) pang, past participle pinged or (nonstandard) pang or (nonstandard) pung)

1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

   My car was pinging until my last oil change.

   • 2013, Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew:

     The microwave pinged. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the timer again.

2. (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
3. (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.

   Coordinate term: poll

   I'm pinging their server.

   The server pings its affiliates periodically.

   • 2008, Allan Reid, Jim Lorenz, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP, Cisco Press, →ISBN:

     Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.

4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.

   Coordinate term: buzz

   I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.

   • 2001 November 25, William Safire, “On Language; The Arab Street”, in New York Times‎:

     If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't ping me; I'll ping you.

   • 2014, Jessica Pryce-Jones, Julia Lindsay, Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 294:

     If certain attendees don't actively participate and that's a surprise to you, ping them an email or private chat message and ask what's happening for them.

5. (colloquial) To flick.

   I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.

6. (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.

   The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.

   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 101:

     At that moment a rifle cracked. The bullet pinged against the railings and whirred off on a ricochet.

7. (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

     Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.

8. (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
   • 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport‎:

     However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.

9. (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.

   Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.

10. (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.

    Bob has two kids, but he really pings.

    • 2022, Maxim Jakubowski, The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories:

      Plus, he pings her gaydar big time, although there's nothing obvious about it in his comportment.

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