ding

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To ring; clang.
2. v. To speak persistently and repetitiously.
3. v. To cause to clang, as by striking.
4. v. To instill with constant repetition: dinged advice into my head.
5. n. A ringing sound.
6. n. Informal A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.
7. v. To dent or nick.
8. v. To hit or strike: was dinged on the head by a ball.
9. v. Slang To shoot, especially with a gun.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

1. n. Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
2. n. A rejection.
3. n. A high-pitched sound of a bell.
4. n. Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid; also called ting. Chinese: 鼎, pinyin: dǐng.
5. v. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
6. v. To hit or strike.
7. v. To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
8. v. To fire or reject.
9. v. To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
10. v. To mishit (a golf ball).
11. v. To eliminate a speller from a spelling bee by ringing (dinging) a bell.
12. v. To make high-pitched sound like a bell.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To dash; to throw violently.
2. v. To cause to sound or ring.
3. v. To strike; to thump; to pound.
4. v. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
5. v. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
6. n. A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
2. n. a ringing sound
3. v. go `ding dong', like a bell