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Webster 1913 Edition

Ding

Ding

(dĭng)
,
Verb.
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.
dänga
, G.
dengeln
.]
1.
To dash; to throw violently.
[Obs.]
To
ding
the book a coit’s distance from him.
Milton.
2.
To cause to sound or ring.
To ding (anything) in one's ears
,
to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Ding

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To strike; to thump; to pound.
[Obs.]
Diken, or delven, or
dingen
upon sheaves.
Piers Plowman.
2.
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore
dinging
among the mountain echoes.
W. Irving.
3.
To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
[Low]

Ding

,
Noun.
A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ding

DING

,
Verb.
T.
pret. dung or dinged. To thrust or dash with violence. [Little used.]

DING

,
Verb.
I.
To bluster; to bounce. [A low word.]

Definition 2024

Ding

Ding

See also: ding, díng, dìng, dīng, dǐng, and dìŋ

German

Noun

Ding n ‎(genitive Dings or Dinges, plural Dinge or Dinger)

  1. thing
  2. (mildly disrespectful) thing; girl; boy (young person)
  3. (dated) Thing (historic Germanic council)

Usage notes

  • The plural Dinge means things in general: Werte sind wichtiger als Dinge. – "Values are more important than things." It also means different kinds of things: Nahrung, Kleidung und Wohnung sind Dinge, die jeder braucht. – "Food, clothes and a home are things that everyone needs."
  • The plural Dinger means several items of one sort of thing: Was sind das hier für kleine rote Dinger? – "What are these little red things?" In formal style, this sense is preferably covered by Gegenstände rather than Dinger. The plural Dinger is also used for the sense “young person”.

Synonyms

  • (historic council): Thing

Derived terms

See also

ding

ding

See also: Ding, díng, dìng, dīng, dǐng, and dìŋ

English

Noun

ding ‎(plural dings)

  1. (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
    • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, 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

Verb

ding ‎(third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past dinged or (obsolete) dang, past participle dinged or (obsolete) dung)

  1. (transitive) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
    The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
  2. (transitive) To hit or strike.
  3. To dash; to throw violently.
    • Milton
      to ding the book a coit's distance from him
  4. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  5. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
    His top school dinged him last week.
  6. (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.
    • 2015 August 7, Ron Lieber, “Bringing paternity leave into the mainstream [print version: Paid leave expands for fathers, but will there be any takers?, International New York Times, 10 August 2015, p. 14]”, in The New York Times:
      […] [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.
  7. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

Noun

ding ‎(plural dings)

  1. A high-pitched sound of a bell, especially with wearisome continuance.

Verb

ding ‎(third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past and past participle dinged)

  1. (intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
    • Washington Irving
      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, role-playing games, chiefly video games) To level up
See also
ding with an animal mask

Etymology 3

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 ‎(dǐng).

Alternative forms

Noun

ding ‎(plural dings)

  1. Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ding, from Old Dutch thing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ding ‎(plural dinge)

  1. thing

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ
  • IPA(key): [dɪŋ]

Etymology

From Old Dutch thing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with Low German Ding, German Ding, West Frisian ding, English thing, Old Norse þing, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish ting.

Noun

ding n ‎(plural dingen, diminutive dingetje n)

  1. matter, thing

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

ding

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dingen
  2. imperative of dingen

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dʲɪɲ], [dʲɪɲɟ]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ding ‎(“wedge”).

Noun

ding f ‎(genitive singular dinge, nominative plural dingeacha)

  1. wedge
  2. thickset person
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dingid ‎(“presses, thrusts, drives in; thrusts down, crushes, quells; forces; extracts, extorts”).

Verb

ding ‎(present analytic dingeann, future analytic dingfidh, verbal noun dingeadh, past participle dingthe)

  1. (transitive) wedge; pack tightly, stuff
  2. (transitive) make compact; knit, knead
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • dingire m ‎(“wedging implement; light hammer”)
Related terms

Etymology 3

Noun

ding f ‎(genitive singular dinge, nominative plural dingeacha)

  1. dint
Declension

Verb

ding ‎(present analytic dingeann, future analytic dingfidh, verbal noun dingeadh, past participle dingthe)

  1. (transitive) dint
Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ding dhing nding
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "ding" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “ding” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “dingid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Mandarin

Romanization

ding

  1. Nonstandard spelling of dīng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of díng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of dǐng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of dìng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Scots

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse dengja ‎(“to beat, thrash”). Cognate with Swedish dänga, Danish dænge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪŋ/

Verb

ding ‎(third-person singular present dings, present participle dingin, past dang, past participle dung)

  1. to beat, hit, strike
  2. to beat, excel, defeat
    • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.3:
      ‘Gude help him!—twa lines o' Davie Lindsay would ding a' he ever clerkit.’

Etymology

From Old High German ding, from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪŋ/ (most areas)
  • IPA(key): /dɪŋk/ (chiefly northern Germany)

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