Definition of "ding"

ding¹

/dɪŋ/

noun
plural dings
1. (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
  Quotations
  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.
  2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014
2. (colloquial) A rejection.
verb
third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past dinged or (obsolete) dang, past participle dinged or (obsolete) dung
1. (transitive) To hit or strike.
2. To dash; to throw violently.
  Quotations
  to ding the book a coit's distance from him
  1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.]
3. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  Quotations
  If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.
  2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014
4. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
  Quotations
  […] [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.
  2015 August 7, Ron Lieber, “Bringing paternity leave into the mainstream ”, in The New York Times‎
6. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).

ding²

/dɪŋ/

noun
plural dings
1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
2. (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
verb
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.
  Quotations
  The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
  1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […]
  These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.
  1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848
2. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  Quotations
  If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.
  1884, Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists
3. (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.

ding³

/dɪŋ/

noun
plural dings or ding
1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

ding⁴

/dɪŋ/

noun
plural dings
1. (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

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