ding

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

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• noun An obsolete variant of dung.Compare dingy.
• 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.

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

• noun A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
• 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.
• 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.

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

• noun Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid; also called ting.
• 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 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

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