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ping

  [ping]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to produce a sharp sound like that of a bullet striking a sheet of metal.
–noun
2. a pinging sound.
Origin:
1850–55; imit.
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knock   (nŏk)   
v.   knocked, knock·ing, knocks

v.   tr.
  1. To strike with a hard blow.
  2. To affect in a specified way by striking hard: knocked the mugger senseless.
  3. To cause to collide: I knocked my head on a low beam.
  4. To produce by hitting or striking: knocked a hole in the wall.
  5. To instill with or as if with blows: We tried to knock some sense into his head.
  6. Slang To find fault with; criticize: Don't knock the food; it's free.
v.   intr.
  1. To strike a sharp audible blow or series of blows, as on a door.
  2. To collide with something: knocked into the table.
  3. To make a pounding or clanking noise: The car engine is knocking.
n.  
  1. An instance of striking or colliding; a blow.
  2. The sound of a sharp tap on a hard surface; a rap.
  3. A pounding or clanking noise made by an engine, often as a result of faulty fuel combustion. Also called ping1.
  4. Slang A cutting, often petty criticism.
  5. To be rough or brutal with; maltreat.
  6. To wander from place to place: knocking around Europe.
  7. To discuss or consider: met to knock around some ideas.
  8. To bring to the ground with a blow; topple.
  9. To disassemble into parts, as for storage or shipping.
  10. To declare sold at an auction, as by striking a blow with a gavel.
  11. Informal To reduce, as in price: knocked each radio down 20 percent.
  12. Slang To receive as wages; earn: knocks down $50 an hour.
  13. Informal
    1. To take a break or rest from; stop: knocked off work at noon.
    2. To cease work: It's after five; let's knock off.
  14. Informal To complete, accomplish, or dispose of hastily or easily; finish: That author knocks off a book a year.
  15. Informal To get rid of; eliminate: knocked off 12 pounds in a month.
  16. Slang To kill or overcome.
  17. Slang To hold up or rob: knocked off a bank.
  18. Informal To copy or imitate, especially without permission: knocking off someone else's ideas.
  19. To render unconscious.
  20. Sports To defeat (a boxing opponent) by a knockout.
  21. To render useless or inoperative: The storm knocked out the phones.
  22. Informal To exert or exhaust (oneself or another) to the utmost: knocked herself out to be ready on time.
  23. Informal To produce in abundance: The workers knocked out 500 parts in one hour.
  24. To inactivate or remove (a gene) by genetic engineering.
  25. Slang To make pregnant.
  26. Chiefly British To wake up or summon, as by knocking at the door.
  27. Chiefly British To wear out; exhaust.
Phrasal Verb(s):
knock around/about Informal
  1. To be rough or brutal with; maltreat.
  2. To wander from place to place: knocking around Europe.
  3. To discuss or consider: met to knock around some ideas.
knock back Informal To gulp (an alcoholic drink).
knock down
  1. To bring to the ground with a blow; topple.
  2. To disassemble into parts, as for storage or shipping.
  3. To declare sold at an auction, as by striking a blow with a gavel.
  4. Informal To reduce, as in price: knocked each radio down 20 percent.
  5. Slang To receive as wages; earn: knocks down $50 an hour.
knock off
  1. Informal
    1. To take a break or rest from; stop: knocked off work at noon.
    2. To cease work: It's after five; let's knock off.
  2. Informal To complete, accomplish, or dispose of hastily or easily; finish: That author knocks off a book a year.
  3. Informal To get rid of; eliminate: knocked off 12 pounds in a month.
  4. Slang To kill or overcome.
  5. Slang To hold up or rob: knocked off a bank.
  6. Informal To copy or imitate, especially without permission: knocking off someone else's ideas.
knock out
  1. To render unconscious.
  2. Sports To defeat (a boxing opponent) by a knockout.
  3. To render useless or inoperative: The storm knocked out the phones.
  4. Informal To exert or exhaust (oneself or another) to the utmost: knocked herself out to be ready on time.
  5. Informal To produce in abundance: The workers knocked out 500 parts in one hour.
  6. To inactivate or remove (a gene) by genetic engineering.
knock togetherTo make or assemble quickly or carelessly.
knock up
  1. Slang To make pregnant.
  2. Chiefly British To wake up or summon, as by knocking at the door.
  3. Chiefly British To wear out; exhaust.

Idiom(s):
have it knocked Slang To be certain of success: "He knew he had it knocked after he saw a rough cut of Chinatown" (Time).

Idiom(s):
knock coldTo render unconscious; knock out.

Idiom(s):
knock dead
  1. To kill with a blow.
  2. Slang To affect strongly and positively: a performance that knocked the audience dead.

Idiom(s):
knock it off Slang Quit it. Often used in the imperative: Knock it off! I'm trying to sleep.

Idiom(s):
knock (oneself) outTo make a great effort; exhaust oneself.

Idiom(s):
knock out of the box Baseball To force the removal of (an opposing pitcher) by heavy hitting.

Idiom(s):
knock the/someone's socks off Slang To overwhelm or amaze.

[Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian.]
ping 1   (pĭng)   
n.  
  1. A sharp, high-pitched sound, as that made by a bullet striking metal.
  2. See knock.
intr.v.   pinged, ping·ing, pings
To make a sharp, high-pitched, metallic sound.

[Imitative.]
ping 2   (pĭng)   
n.  A protocol that sends a message to another computer and waits for acknowledgment, often used to check if another computer on a network is reachable.

[p(acket) in(formation) g(roper).]
Ping   (pĭng)   
A river, about 563 km (350 mi) long, of western Thailand. It is a major tributary of the Chao Phraya.
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Main Entry:  ping
Part of Speech:  v
Definition:  to get someone's attention with a sharp sound or other form of communication
Usage:  informal
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Language Translation for : ping
Spanish: sonido metálico, silbido,
German: das Klirren,
Japanese: ピュー
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Ping

Ping\, n. [Probably of imitative origin.] The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

Ping

Ping\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pinged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinging.] To make the sound called ping.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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ping

[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse]
1. n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another. The Unix command `ping(8)' can be used to do this manually (note that `ping(8)''s author denies the widespread folk etymology that the name was ever intended as acronym for `Packet INternet Groper'). Occasionally used as a phone greeting. See ACK, also ENQ.
2. vt. To verify the presence of.
3. vt. To get the attention of.
4. vt. To send a message to all members of a mailing list requesting an ACK (in order to verify that everybody's addresses are reachable). "We haven't heard much of anything from Geoff, but he did respond with an ACK both times I pinged jargon-friends."
5. n. A quantum packet of happiness. People who are very happy tend to exude pings; furthermore, one can intentionally create pings and aim them at a needy party (e.g., a depressed person). This sense of ping may appear as an exclamation; "Ping!" (I'm happy; I am emitting a quantum of happiness; I have been struck by a quantum of happiness). The form "pingfulness", which is used to describe people who exude pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of language, "pingfulness" can also be used as an exclamation, in which case it's a much stronger exclamation than just "ping"!). Oppose blargh.

The funniest use of `ping' to date was described in January 1991 by Steve Hayman on the Usenet group comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine, and got tired of having to run back to his console after each cabling tweak to see if the ping packets were getting through. So he used the sound-recording feature on the NeXT, then wrote a script that repeatedly invoked `ping(8)', listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned packet. Result? A program that caused the machine to repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ... ping ..." as long as the network was up. He turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no time.
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ping  (n.)
1835, imitative of the sound of a bullet striking something sharply. Meaning "short, high-pitched electronic pulse" is attested from 1943. Verb use, in computer sense, is from at least 1981.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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ping networking, tool
(ping, originally contrived to match submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse) A program written in 1983 by Mike Muuss (who also wrote TTCP) used to test reachability of destinations by sending them one, or repeated, ICMP echo requests and waiting for replies. Since ping works at the IP level its server-side is often implemented entirely within the operating system kernel and is thus the lowest level test of whether a remote host is alive. Ping will often respond even when higher level, TCP-based services cannot.
Sadly, Mike Muuss was killed in a road accident on 2000-11-20.
The term is also used as a verb: "Ping host X to see if it is up."
The Unix command "ping" can be used to do this and to measure round-trip delays.
The funniest use of "ping" was described in January 1991 by Steve Hayman on the Usenet group comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a TCP/IP Ethernet hooked up to a NeXT machine. Using the sound recording feature on the NeXT, he wrote a script that repeatedly invoked ping, listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned packet. This caused the machine to repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ... ping ..." as long as the network was up. He turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no time.
Ping did not stand for "Packet InterNet Groper", Dave Mills offered this backronym expansion some time later.
See also ACK, ENQ, traceroute, spray.
The Story of the Ping Program.
Unix manual page: ping(8).
(2005-06-22)

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PING
Packet Internet Groper
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