ding

IPA: dˈɪŋ

(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
(colloquial) A rejection.
The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
(colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
(Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
(historical) A prefecture of imperial China within present-day Hebei under the Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang dynasties, with its seat at Dingzhou.
(historical) A county of Republican China in Hebei Province.
A surname.

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

Examples of "ding" in Sentences

* Ding ding ding ding* Bloo lites an red lites flashin….
By a purely electric car and * ding ding ding* you've hit the jackpot.
By the way, a savvy worker will claim 8 or more dependents so that the witholding ding is not too big.
Kelly - Let's just say she had a different definition of the word ding dong thank a choco covered snack cake.
_Hey ding a ding_, _Bony lass upon a green_, _My bony on gave me a bek_, _By a bank az I lay_; and _two more_ he hath fair wrapt up in parchment, and bound with a whipcord! "
A soothsayer, steeped in the art of feng shui, advised the clan to invite a family named Ding to live in their midst; the word ding means "nail," and the Hus needed something to anchor their clan's roots, he said.