pling
/plɪŋ/
pling noun: the symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
Noun (1)
pling (plural plings)
- The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
- IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet)
Noun (2)
pling (plural plings)
Verb
pling (third-person singular simple present plings, present participle plinging, simple past and past participle plinged)
- To produce a soft bell-like sound.
- The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade
Examples of pling in a sentence
- Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:
- Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names.1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):
Forms of pling
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | plings |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | plings |
| present participle | plinging |
| past participle | plinged |
| past | plinged |
Origin of pling
Imitative.
Words that rhyme with pling
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sling
- bring
- jing
- ding
- cling
- unstring
- ming
- bing
- ching
- fingerling
- something
- zing
- Byng
- Beijing
- bling
- cha-ching
- ling
- Peking
- peng ting
- Singh
- thring
- Tring
- upswing
- abstinence ring
- aswing
- awing
- badelynge
- bering
- Chongqing
- conserving
- ging
- hang gliding
- hing
- ing
- Jingning
- Jining
- ka-ching
- kerching
- Kunming
- mis-sing
- morphling
- png
- qing
- Southern Ming
- submitting
- tang ping
- ting
- tinkering
Questions about pling
- What does pling mean?
- Pling means the symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- How do you use pling in a sentence?
- Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
- What part of speech is pling?
- Pling can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pling?
- Pling is pronounced /plɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of pling?
- The plural of pling is plings.
Words near pling in the dictionary
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