Definition of "ping"

ping

/pɪŋ/

noun
plural pings
1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  Quotations
  With a sudden ping, there was a rabbit there in the black labyrinth with him[.]
  1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 89
2. (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
3. (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
4. (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
5. (networking) Latency.
  Quotations
  2000 April 4, CaPRubberchecks, “Low-Ping servers...YIKES!”, in alt.games.starsiege.tribes (Usenet)
  "You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"> > And other such insights into why I was winning.
  2000 November 8, [email protected], “HL DM with a low ping.......”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet)
  2001 August 2, Asha, “high ping in cs low ping outside cs??”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (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 […]
  2002 June 24, drip, “Bandwidth - Lagtime”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet)
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.
verb
third-person singular simple present pings, present participle pinging, simple past pinged or (nonstandard) pang, past participle pinged or (nonstandard) pung
1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
  Quotations
  The microwave pinged. He forked the steak onto the plate and set the timer again.
  2013, Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew
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.
  Quotations
  Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.
  2008, Allan Reid, Jim Lorenz, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP, Cisco Press
4. (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
  Quotations
  If any deeper etymology is required, Arthur, don't ping me; I'll ping you.
  2001 November 25, William Safire, “On Language; The Arab Street”, in New York Times‎
  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.
  2014, Jessica Pryce-Jones, Julia Lindsay, Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 294
5. (colloquial) To flick.
6. (colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
7. (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
  Quotations
  Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.
  2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎
8. (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
  Quotations
  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.
  2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport‎
9. (colloquial) To penalize.

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