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ding

1 [ding]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cause to make a ringing sound.

2.	to speak about insistently.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to make a ringing sound.

4.	to talk insistently.

–noun

5.	a ringing sound.

Origin:
1575–85; see ding-dong

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ding

2 [ding]

Informal.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cause surface damage to; dent: Flying gravel had dinged the car's fenders.

2.	to strike with force; hit: The catcher was dinged on the shoulder by a wild throw.

3.	to blackball: Only one freshman was dinged by the fraternity.

–noun

4.	dent; nick: The surfboard has a few dings in it from scraping over rocks.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME dingen, dengen, prob. OE *dingan; akin to OE dencgan, ON dengja

Dar⋅ling

[dahr-ling]

–noun

Jay Nor⋅wood [nawr-woo

, (“Ding”

), 1876–1962, U.S. political cartoonist.

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ding¹ (dĭng)

v. dinged, ding·ing, dings

v. intr.

To ring; clang.
To speak persistently and repetitiously.

v. tr.

To cause to clang, as by striking.
To instill with constant repetition: dinged advice into my head.

n. A ringing sound.

[Partly imitative and partly alteration of din.]

ding² (dĭng)

n. Informal
A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.
tr.v. dinged, ding·ing, dings

To dent or nick.
To hit or strike: was dinged on the head by a ball.
Slang To shoot, especially with a gun.

[From ding, to strike, beat on, pound (from Middle English dingen; akin to Old Norse dengja) and from ding¹.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary

ding

tv.
to shoot, dent, or knock something. : The rock dinged my left fender.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

darling

O.E. deorling, double dim. of deor "dear." The vowel shift from -e- to -a- (16c.) is usual for -er- followed by a consonant. "It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng" (1562).

ding

1819, "to sound as metal when struck," possibly abstracted from ding-dong (1659), of imitative origin. The verb meaning "to deal heavy blows" is c.1300, probably from O.N. dengja "to hammer." Meaning "dent" is 1960s. Dinger "something superlative" (e.g. humdinger) is from 1809, Amer.Eng. Ding-a-ling "one who is crazy" is 1935, from notion of hearing bells in the head.

Computing Dictionary

ding
1. Synonym for feep. Usage: rare among hackers, but commoner in the Real World.
2. "dinged": What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, especially something trivial. "I was dinged for having a messy desk."
[The Jargon File]

Encyclopedia

ding

type of ancient Chinese cooking or holding vessel, usually with two handles on the rim, that is supported by three or four columnar legs.

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