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- Regno Unito//dɪŋ//
- //ˈdɪŋɡ//
Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
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informaleVery 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.
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A rejection.
I just got my first ding letter.
Etimologia
From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną. Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).
verbo
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To hit or strike.
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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.
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To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.
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To fire or reject.
His top school dinged him last week.
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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.
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To mishit (a golf ball).
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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?
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The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
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The act of levelling up.
Etimologia
Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,
verbo
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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.
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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.
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To level up.
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An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
Etimologia
Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).
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An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
Etimologia
From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).
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an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
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In American Chinese cuisine, cubed or bite-sized meat.
shrimp ding
chicken ding
Forme
- plurale
- dings
- passato
- dinged, dang
- participio passato
- dinged, dang, dung
- participio presente
- dinging
- 3ª persona singolare
- dings
ding · Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
Ding · A surname from Mandarin or Eastern Min.dingo · A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis…dining · Eating dinner as a social function.