Pling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /plɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pling is a noun meaning (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
Meaning
(computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
More Meanings
- A soft bell-like sound; ding.
- (intransitive) To produce a soft bell-like sound.
Example Sentences
The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.
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.
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).
Word Forms
- plings
- plinging
- plinged
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bang, exclamation, astonisher, shebang, ecphoneme, interrobang.
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