Ding Definition

dĭng
dinged, dinging, dings
verb
dinged, dinging, dings
To make ring.
Webster's New World
To make a sound like that of a bell; ring.
Webster's New World
To make a small dent in.
Webster's New World
To strike; hit.
Webster's New World
To hit or strike.
Was dinged on the head by a ball.
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noun
dings
The sound of a bell.
Webster's New World
A small dent.
Webster's New World

Ding-a-ling.

Webster's New World

(colloquial) A rejection.

Wiktionary

(colloquial) To fire or reject.

His top school dinged him last week.
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Other Word Forms of Ding

Noun

Singular:
ding
Plural:
dings

Origin of Ding

  • 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 *dangijaną (“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”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From ding to strike, beat on, pound (from Middle English dingen) (Old Norse dengja) and from ding

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Partly imitative and partly alteration of din

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng)

    From Wiktionary

  • Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

    From Wiktionary

Ding Sentence Examples

  • A text made her phone ding as she finished eating.

  • The polyp may then form a second bud, which becomes the starting point of a new system, the beginning, that is, of a new branch; and even a third bud, starting yet another system, may be produced from the same polyp. Hence the colonies of Calyptoblastea may be com plexly branched, and the bud ding may be biserial through out, uniserial throughout, or partly one, partly the other.

  • I found the noise of the machines going ding ding ding very irritating.

  • About twenty-seven species are now known, all characterized by length not excee 4 ding 06 of an inch, flat wings, three articulations in the antennae, one or two articulations in the tarses, with digitules, but without cornicles on the abdomen.

  • This influence extended from Germany to Denmark, where it was embraced by Hoff ding, and to England, where it was accepted by Romanes, and in a more qualified manner as " a working hypothesis " by Stout.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIN

Words Ending With

GNGING

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Words Starting With D and Ending With G

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With D4 Letter Words Ending With G