ping

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Sadly I don't have an hour to talk about it at the moment, but ping me any time.

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Quick take

a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ping gathered in one view.

noun

a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya

noun

a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)

verb

hit with a pinging noise; "The bugs pinged the lamp shade"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ping.

noun

a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya

noun

a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)

verb

hit with a pinging noise; "The bugs pinged the lamp shade"

verb

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"

verb

make a short high-pitched sound; "the bullet pinged when they struck the car"

verb

contact, usually in order to remind of something; "I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing"

verb

send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active; "ping your machine in the office"

Example sentences

Sadly I don't have an hour to talk about it at the moment, but ping me any time.

I spent most of my time doing practically nothing except playing ping pong and foosball and getting paid for it.

Presumably, there were eight such ping interactions, ending with the one at 0811 Kuala Lumpur time.

I'm not as young as I used to be and it's not terribly important for me to play ping-pong with my co-workers and talk shop over beers.

It's a good idea, but penalizing jobs for mentioning pizza, beer or ping-pong is ridiculous.

Combined with knowledge of turnaround delays, this would enable them to calculate the plane's distance from the satellite during each ping.

But these bugs come in all levels of complexity, from simple overstuffed buffers to logical ping-pong that hurts your brain when you try to follow it.

There is nothing stopping a firewall from preventing connections to a computer that is now addressable from the outside, just as they do today.

I remember a couple of threads on devel-random complaining about the lack of ping pong balls, and how that insulted us as Yahoos since it meant that management didn't trust us.

Oh the humanity of not providing everyone with $2 worth of ping pong balls!Yahoo was filled with lazy workers, and an extremely fat layer of lazy management.