ding

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Related to Old English dengan (“to ding, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną. Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).

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.

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 hit or strike.
2. To dash; to throw violently.
   • Milton

     to ding the book a coit's distance from him

3. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
   • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014:

     If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.

   His top school dinged him last week.

5. (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.

6. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).

• ding up

• dingbat

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

ding (plural dings)

1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
2. (colloquial, role-playing games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.

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, especially video games) To level up.

• ding dong
• ding, ding, ding, we have a winner

ding with an animal mask

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

• ting

ding (plural dings or ding)

1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

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

ding (plural dinge)

1. thing
   • 2016, “Dinge Raak Warm”, in Sal Jy Met My Dans?‎, South Africa, performed by Kurt Darren:

     Dinge raak warm, warm.

     Things touch warm, warm.

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

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

ding n (plural dingen, diminutive dingetje n)

1. matter, thing

• dinges
• onding

• Afrikaans: ding
  • English: dingus

See the etymology of the main entry.

ding

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

• IPA^(key): /dʲɪɲ/, /dʲɪɲɟ/

From Old Irish ding (“wedge”).

ding f (genitive singular dinge, nominative plural dingeacha)

1. wedge
2. thickset person

• (both senses): ginn (Cois Fharraige)

• dingchruthach (“wedge-shaped, cuneiform”, adjective)
• dingeach (“wedge(-shaped)”, adjective)
• dingeán m (“dike”)
• dingín m (diminutive of ding)

From Old Irish dingid (“press, force”), from Proto-Celtic *dingeti (“knead, form, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti, nasal infix present of *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form”).

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

• dingire m (“wedging implement; light hammer”)

• dingireacht f (“wedge-driving; tapping”)

ding f (genitive singular dinge, nominative plural dingeacha)

1. dint

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

1. (transitive) dint

• "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.

ding

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

• 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.

ding

1. Alternative form of dingen

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

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

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.’