ping
A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
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Everything went wrong for the Rangers at the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/221681/ The ping-pong balls were not kind to the Blueshirts tonight. Despite entering the evening with the third-bes…
Doing a general enquiry over ping lists If you want to be on a ping list for adopts, please respond to this post telling me which adopts you want to be pinged for - Chao £10 designs - Chibi £20 designs - Standard £…
Draft Lottery Doom: Blackhawks Drop To Fourth Pick in 2026 NHL Draft https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/568148/ The Chicago Blackhawks suffered the worst-case scenario at the 2026 Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, as the ping…
No problemo, I'm discovering cool devs thanks to the ping :P
Sultans of Ping highly unlikely as a bonus?! #popmaster
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A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
“weve finally tamed the siren song of the ping, liberating your attention from the tyranny of the unread”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Pow! Ping! The fuckers. I wish I was big just once.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Wordle 1,781 4/6 ping @scoremywordle.bsky.social #Wordle #5May2026 ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Serpent d'Océan, una extraordinaria escultura de metal de 130 metros de longitud, obra del artista chino Huang Yong Ping. Está situada en la playa de Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, en el borde del estuario del Loira (Francia).”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The script kiddes have grown up, they're now called Sultans of Ping”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
“Or even more specifically, mo-capped it. Someone sat in a jump suit with ping pong balls, and someone said “casually check your feet…go!””
— Bluesky· May 2026“Next week I'm co-hosting the first ever Fractional Women's Summit. We have amazing speakers and tracks, but what I'm most excited about is what we've built in between. Friction-free moments designed to get people into real, substantive conversation. Ping me for an invite.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Reasons for d-I-v-o-r-c-e, 50-11 Itsa podcast about nutbags in #NC history! It’s got pirates, comet ping pong and eric! All troo!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The immediate and long-term future of the Boston Bruins could be greatly improved if the ping-pong balls fall their way in Tuesday night's 2026 NHL Draft Lottery at 7 p.m. on.nbcboston.com/3yEktBc”
— Bluesky· May 2026“4) Bouncing amongst the rocks and garbage is a singular ping-pong ball.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
“Everything went wrong for the Rangers at the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/221681/ The ping-pong balls were not kind to the Blueshirts tonight. Despite entering the evening with the third-best odds…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Doing a general enquiry over ping lists If you want to be on a ping list for adopts, please respond to this post telling me which adopts you want to be pinged for - Chao £10 designs - Chibi £20 designs - Standard £40 designs”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Draft Lottery Doom: Blackhawks Drop To Fourth Pick in 2026 NHL Draft https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/568148/ The Chicago Blackhawks suffered the worst-case scenario at the 2026 Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, as the ping…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“No problemo, I'm discovering cool devs thanks to the ping :P”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Sultans of Ping highly unlikely as a bonus?! #popmaster”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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