ding

noun

1. 1

   informalVery minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.

   Mike hit the bottom and picked up a little ding on his head.

   If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles.

2. 2

   A rejection.

   I just got my first ding letter.

verb

1. 1

   To hit or strike.

2. 2

   To dash; to throw violently.

   to ding the book a coit's distance from him

   The butcher's axe (like great Alcides' bat) / Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat.

3. 3

   To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.

   If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.

4. 4

   To fire or reject.

   His top school dinged him last week.

5. 5

   To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.

   My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.

   […] [E]mployees don't feel like they're going to get dinged on performance reviews because they had the same goals as a guy who had been there all 12 months with no leave.

6. 6

   To mishit (a golf ball).

7. 7

   To fall heavily and continually, with great force.

   The night turn'd dark an' dang on rain, […]

   An awfu' show'r o' sna' and drift / As ever dang down frae the lift; / Right wild an' monstrous Boreas roar'd.

   It's dingin' on, isn't?

noun

1. 1

   The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.

2. 2

   The act of levelling up.

verb

1. 1

   To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.

   The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.

   These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.

2. 2

   To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.

   If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.

3. 3

   To level up.

noun

1. 1

   An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

noun

1. 1

   An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

noun

1. 1

   an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian

noun

1. 1

   In American Chinese cuisine, cubed or bite-sized meat.

   shrimp ding

   chicken ding

Forms

plural

dings

past tense

dinged, dang

past participle

dinged, dang, dung

present participle

dinging

third person singular

dings