Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To ring; clang.
  • intransitive verb To speak persistently and repetitiously.
  • intransitive verb To cause to clang, as by striking.
  • intransitive verb To instill with constant repetition.
  • noun A ringing sound.
  • noun A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.
  • transitive verb To dent or nick.
  • transitive verb To hit or strike.
  • transitive verb Slang To shoot, especially with a gun.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To sound, as a bell; ring, especially with wearisome continuance.
  • To keep repeating; impress by reiteration: with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  • Same as dang.
  • To strike; beat; throw or dash with violence.
  • To prove too much for; beat; nonplus.
  • To beat; thrash.
  • To strike.
  • To bluster; storm.
  • To descend; fall; come down: used as in the phrase “It's dingin' on,” applied to a fall of rain or snow.
  • To be defeated or overturned; yield.
  • noun An obsolete variant of dung.Compare dingy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To strike; to thump; to pound.
  • intransitive verb To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
  • intransitive verb Low To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
  • transitive verb obsolete To dash; to throw violently.
  • transitive verb To cause to sound or ring.
  • transitive verb to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A high-pitched sound of a bell, especially with wearisome continuance.
  • verb intransitive To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
  • verb transitive To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  • verb intransitive, colloquial, gaming To level up
  • noun informal Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
  • noun colloquial A rejection.
  • verb transitive To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
  • verb transitive To hit or strike.
  • verb transitive To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
  • verb transitive, colloquial To fire or reject.
  • verb transitive, colloquial To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
  • verb transitive, golf To mishit (a golf ball).
  • verb To eliminate a speller from a spelling bee by ringing (dinging) a bell.
  • noun Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid; also called ting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
  • noun a ringing sound
  • verb go `ding dong', like a bell

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Partly imitative and partly alteration of din.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From ding, to strike, beat on, pound (from Middle English dingen; akin to Old Norse dengja) and from ding.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

(onomatopoeia). Compare ding-dong,

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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Romanized from Mandarin  (dǐng)

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  • hi friend

    the toe plays a very important role to hold a ding in your hand, the best ding for blisters is a product called skin, which you should be able to pick up at a drug store. you put the second skin over the blister than use a couple band aids to keep it in place and you won't even know it's there anymore, skin problem normally occur in the toe so please keep concentrate on it and fat ness will remove

    January 9, 2007

    • My squeeze uses ding:
    • for just about any word;
    • when she/I/we is/am/are ready for sex (like the sound of the microwave when that's ready);
    • (v.) for coition itself;
    • (adj. or adv.) anything associated with coition.

    July 25, 2008

  • "11. An obsolete variant of dung. Compare dingy." --Cent. Dict.

    April 22, 2011