ding
verb/dɪŋ/
/dɪŋ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ding | /dɪŋ/ /dɪŋ/ |
| he / she / it dings | /dɪŋz/ /dɪŋz/ |
| past simple dinged | /dɪŋd/ /dɪŋd/ |
| past participle dinged | /dɪŋd/ /dɪŋd/ |
| -ing form dinging | /ˈdɪŋɪŋ/ /ˈdɪŋɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] ding something (especially North American English) to cause slight damage to a car, etc.
- I dinged my passenger door.
- [transitive] ding somebody (especially North American English) to hit somebody
- The guy dinged him on the side of the head.
- (figurative) My department got dinged by the budget cuts.
- [intransitive] to make a sound like a bell
- The computer just dings when I press a key.
Word Originverb sense 1 early 17th cent.: imitative. verb senses 2 to 3 Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Danish dænge ‘beat, bang’
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