A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
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.
(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
(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.
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To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.My car was pinging until my last oil change.
submarine navigation To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.I'm pinging their server.The server pings its affiliates periodically.
(networking) To send a network packet to another host and receive an acknowledgement in return.I can't ping their server: perhaps it's been switched off.
To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
(colloquial) To flick.I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
(colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
(colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
2010, December 29, Chris Whyatt, Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton, Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running.
2011, Septembe 24, Ben Dirs, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania, 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.
