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Ping can be a verb or a noun.
ping used as a verb:
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
"My car was pinging until my last oil change." - To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
"I'm pinging kremvax." - To ping and receive an acknowledgement.
"I can't ping kremvax." - To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
"I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim." - To flick.
"I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger." - To bounce.
"The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back." - To cause something to bounce.
""Ping the ball!""
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
ping used as a noun:
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
"My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away." - A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
"The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship." - A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
"The network is overloaded from all the pings going out." - An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
"I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is ping?
- Verb usage: My car was pinging until my last oil change.
- Verb usage: I'm pinging kremvax.
- Verb usage: The server pings its affiliates periodically.
- Verb usage: I can't ping kremvax.
- Verb usage: I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
- Verb usage: I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
- Verb usage: The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
- Verb usage: "Ping the ball!"
- Noun usage: My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
- Noun usage: The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
- Noun usage: The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
- Noun usage: I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of ping are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of ping, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
