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How to pronounce ping in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ping river
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Synonyms knock, pink
Type of sound, go


the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline.
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Type of sound
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Type of contact, get hold of, reach, get through


I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing.
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Type of strike, collide with, hit, impinge on, run into


The bugs pinged the lamp shade.
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Type of go, sound


the bullet pinged when they struck the car.
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Type of get through, reach, get hold of, contact


ping your machine in the office.

Examples of ping

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Now, he and Mr. Doonan play ping pong every night when they come home from work.
From the online.wsj.com
You can find sulfurous, ping-pong-ball-size brussels sprouts just about anytime.
From the philly.com
Before the Internet, ping was used to describe the sound of a submarine's sonar.
From the dallasnews.com
Ping met with al-Bashir for two hours Sunday, and visited Chad recently as well.
From the timesunion.com
Ping An bought a stake in Belgium's biggest financial services firm in November.
From the edition.cnn.com
I sat looking at the navy blue folder as my thoughts ping-ponged back and forth.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It's none other than Harry Evans, former Sunday Times editor, playing ping pong.
From the guardian.co.uk
The section's centerpiece is a stream table about the size of a ping-pong table.
From the delawareonline.com
Recreational activities allowed for baseball, horseshoes, and ping pong matches.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya
  • Hit with a pinging noise; "The bugs pinged the lamp shade"
  • A sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
  • Pink: sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"
  • Make a short high-pitched sound; "the bullet pinged when they struck the car"
  • Contact, usually in order to remind of something; "I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing"
  • Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer. The name comes from active sonar terminology.
  • In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more "ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. ...
  • PING is a brand of high-quality golf equipment, as well as one of the largest of the remaining American manufacturers of golf clubs, based in Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Karsten Solheim, who was an engineer at the General Electric company. ...