ding

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
2. (colloquial) A rejection.

Verb

1. (transitive) To hit or strike.
2. To dash; to throw violently.
3. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To fire or reject.
5. (colloquial, transitive) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
6. (transitive) To mishit (a golf ball).
7. (Scotland) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
2. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
3. (colloquial, especially, intransitive) To level up.

Concepts

bigner

résonner

retentir

💍

tache

Synonymes

ring

💍

tinkle

jingle

clink

dent

ting

gouge

dingdong

nick

dong

bing

bud

bash

bump

broccoli

🥦

boom

💥

bar

ashes

herb

🌿

boo

hay

dew

ding-a-ling

kilter

ditch

clang

fir

flower

🌸

funk

gage

blonde

bale

chink

grass

chime

block

grata

greeter

greta

has

Ghana

🇬🇭

hemp

gauge

homegrown

hooch

charge

jointing

kali

gash

gangster

Traductions

corte

amassado

tall

osca

mossa

nachhallen

mitschwingen

κωδώνισμα

risuonare

erva

🌿

soar

ressoar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/di(ː)ŋ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: dingen

Hérité de ancien anglais: *dingan

Appartenant à ancien anglais: denġan

Appartenant à vieux norrois: dengja

Appartenant à islandais: dengja

Appartenant à suédois: dänga

Appartenant à danois: dænge

Appartenant à allemand: tengeln

In summary

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”).