ding

verb

Definition of dingnext
1
as in to ping

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2
as in to dent

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Recent Examples of ding Traditional lenders usually perform a hard inquiry that could ding your credit score. — Tanza Loudenback, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2022 Each one of those is bent and the protective rubber is peeling off, just waiting to scratch or ding expensive wheels or other components. — The Editors, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2022 Unlike Caitríona Balfe in Belfast or Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans, Hathaway’s performance as a PTA mom is not concerned with being lovable, though that may ding her in what is, at heart, a high-school popularity contest. — Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022 These aren’t quite as simple to load as laying your skis down on a roof rack, but ding your gas mileage less than any other option here. — Ryan Wichelns, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for ding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ding
  1. ping
  2. dent
  3. tarnish
  4. tinkle
  5. blight
  6. clang
  7. jingle
  8. plunk
Verb
  • As of Thursday morning, Contender was pinged just a few miles from Sebastian and is continuing south.
    — Julia Bonavita, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Multiple great white sharks have pinged off the coasts of Florida in recent weeks as spring break tourists descend on the peninsula.
    — Kim Luciani, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of ping
Verb
  • The German luxury automaker said Trump's tariffs would dent its profit margin by 2.5 percentage points on a gross basis, without mitigation measures that could include cutting the sales of its entry-level models in the U.S. and offering only its higher-end vehicles, sources told Bloomberg.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The cars were dented, with a number of windows broken with traffic cones, police said.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of dent
Verb
  • Solovyov expressed outrage over his brief stint with the battalion, suggesting this tarnished its reputation.
    — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The brewery, whose brand was tarnished over allegations of toxic workplace conditions in 2021, has locations in Fishtown and Mt. Airy.
    — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of tarnish
Verb
  • Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.
    — Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
Definition of tinkle
Verb
  • Each of these sites serves as a time capsule offering clues about Earth's past—and possibly a future blighted by climate change.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Whereas Minnie feels like her whole life was slightly blighted by missing out on that name and that she has been cursed by bad luck.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
Definition of blight
Verb
  • First, David Pastrnak set up Geekie for a one-timer but, with much of the net at which to shoot, Geekie clanged the near post.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Sam Hauser had a chance to extend that lead moments later after Tatum stole a pass and sprung him for a fast break, but his wide-open dunk attack clanged off the rim.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
Definition of clang
Verb
  • Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The first half of the instrumental sounds like wind chimes jingling around in a storm.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of jingle
Verb
  • Once Hampton takes Harmony up to Aunt Sissy’s house, we’re plunked right into the thick of some awful stuff.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Taking seedlings straight from indoors and plunking them into the garden is a shock.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2025
Definition of plunk

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