ding

Meanings

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

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

1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
2. The act of levelling up.

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

1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

1. An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

1. an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian

1. A prefecture of imperial China within present-day Hebei under the Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang dynasties, with its seat at Dingzhou.
2. A county of Republican China in Hebei Province.

1. A surname from Mandarin or Eastern Min.

Etymology

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”).