From en.wiktionary.org:
[Ping]
** English
[Ping (disambiguation)]
*** Etymology
Partly [en], and partly continuing [en], from [en], in turn likely from [la].
Compare [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [pĭng] ; [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
2. * [1=en]
3. [en] A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
4. [en] [en] A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
5. [en] An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
6. [en] Latency .
7. * [en]
8. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=November 8 2000 | author=the_mad...@my-deja.com | title=HL DM with a low PING ....... | newsgroup=alt.games.half-life
|passage="You low PING c**t, you only win cos of your PING!"<br>> > And other
such insights into why I was winning.}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=June 24 2002 | author=drip | title=Bandwidth - Lagtime | newsgroup=alt.games.unreal.tournament
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. [en] A means of highlight ing a feature on the game map so that allied player s can see it.
2. [en] A notification .
**** Related terms
[en]
**** Translations
[a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[a pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound] [trans-bottom]
[a packet which a remote host is expected to echo]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Persian: [fa]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[an email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[past2=pang]
1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Francine Rivers | title=And the Shofar Blew
|passage=The microwave PINGED. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the
timer again.}}
1. [en] To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
2. [en] [en] To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=Allan Reid; Jim Lorenz | title=Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP | publisher=Cisco Press | isbn=9780132877350
|passage=Just because you cannot PING a server or telnet to it does not mean
that the server is down or inaccessible.}}
1. [en] To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
2. * {{ quote-journal
|en |work=New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-11-25-01-on-language-the-arab-street.html
|title=On Language; The Arab Street |author=w:William Safire |date=2001-11-25
|passage=If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't PING me; I'll PING
you.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2014 | author=Jessica Pryce-Jones; Julia Lindsay | title=Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | isbn=9781118770436 | page= [rUtZAwAAQBAJ]
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To flick .
2. [en] To bounce .
3. [en] To cause something to bounce.
4. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=December 29, 2010 |author=Chris Whyatt |title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
|work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9309542.stm
|page= |passage=Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment,
Essien then PINGED the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently
running.}}
1. [en] To call out audibly.
2. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=September 24, 2011 |author=Ben Dirs |title=Rugby World Cup 2011:
England 67-3 Romania |work=BBC Sport
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/14812577.stm |page=
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To penalize .
2. [en] To trigger a person's gaydar ; to look or act obviously homosexual .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2022 | author=Maxim Jakubowski | title=The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories
|passage=Plus, he PINGS her gaydar big time, although there's nothing obvious
about it in his comportment.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[to send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a
response]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[to flick]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to bounce]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to cause something to bounce]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Aromanian
*** Alternative forms
- [rup]
*** Etymology
Probably from [rup], with the loss of the initial prefix, or from a root
*_pingō_ instead of [la]. Compare Daco-Romanian _împinge , împing_.
*** Verb
[pp=pimte]
1. to push
**** Related terms
- [rup]
- [rup]
- [rup]
** Chinese
*** Etymology
[zh].
*** Pronunciation
[zh]
*** Verb
[zh-verb]
1. [zh] to [en]
*** Noun
[zh]
1. [zh] latency
** Galician
*** Etymology
[gl].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
** Javanese
*** Etymology
From [jv].
*** Determiner
[jv]
1. time s
** Mandarin
*** Romanization
[notr=1]
1. [cmn]
2. [cmn]
3. [cmn]
4. [cmn]
**** Usage notes
- [cmn-toneless-note]
** Spanish
[lang=es]
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[pingg]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
** Turkish
*** Etymology
From [tr].
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
*** Noun
[i]
1. [tr] [en] , latency
**** Declension
[i]