Pling

/plɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

(computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
2. A soft bell-like sound; ding.
3. (intransitive) To produce a soft bell-like sound.

Example Sentences

This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.

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.

Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.

Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).

The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.

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Word Forms

• plings
• plinging
• plinged

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