ding

Meanings

Noun

• Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
• A rejection.
• The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
• The act of levelling up.
• An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Verb

• To hit or strike.
• To dash; to throw violently.
• To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
• To fire or reject.
• To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
• To mishit (a golf ball).
• To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
• To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
• To level up.

Origin

• From Middle English dingen, dyngen, from Old English *dingan ("to ding"), from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną ("to beat"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- ("to beat, push"). Related to Old English dengan ("to ding, beat, strike") and Old Norse dengja ("to hammer"); 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.
• Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,
• Romanized from Mandarin .