Bang vs. Ding — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bang and Ding
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Bang
A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.
Ding
Make a ringing sound
Cash registers were dinging softly
Bang
A sudden loud blow or bump.
Ding
Dent (something).
Bang
(Informal) A sudden burst of action
The campaign started off with a bang.
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Ding
Used to imitate a metallic ringing sound resembling a bell.
Bang
(Slang) A sense of excitement; a thrill
We got a bang out of watching the old movies.
Ding
A mark or dent on the bodywork of a car, boat, or other vehicle.
Bang
Often bangs A fringe of hair that hangs over the forehead, cut in any of various styles.
Ding
A lively party or celebration.
Bang
Variant of bhang.
Ding
To ring; clang.
Bang
To strike heavily and often repeatedly; bump.
Ding
To speak persistently and repetitiously.
Bang
To close suddenly and loudly; slam.
Ding
To cause to clang, as by striking.
Bang
To handle noisily or violently
Banged the pots in the kitchen.
Ding
To instill with constant repetition
Dinged advice into my head.
Bang
(Informal) To turn in (a specific direction or along a course), especially suddenly
Bang a left onto Boylston Street.
Ding
To dent or nick
I dinged the rear bumper when I backed into another car.
Bang
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.
Ding
To hit or strike
He was dinged on the head by a ball.
Bang
To make a sudden loud, explosive noise.
Ding
To penalize, as in assigning a score
The professor dinged the student for the typos in her essay.
Bang
To crash noisily against or into something
My elbow banged against the door.
Ding
(Slang) To shoot, especially with a gun
She dinged the target with her first shot.
Bang
To cut (hair) to form bangs.
Ding
A ringing sound.
Bang
Exactly; precisely
The arrow hit bang on the target.
Ding
A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.
Bang
Suddenly; abruptly
Cut the conversation bang off.
Ding
A minor penalty or deduction, as in a score.
Bang
Used to indicate the sound of an explosion or collision.
Ding
(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
Bang
A sudden percussive noise.
When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
Ding
(colloquial) A rejection.
I just got my first ding letter.
Bang
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
Ding
The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
Bang
An explosion.
Ding
The act of levelling up.
Bang
Syn of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
Tiffany has long hair and bangs.
Ding
An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
Bang
The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
An bang path.
Ding
(Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
Bang
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
Ding
(transitive) To hit or strike.
Bang
An act of sexual intercourse.
Ding
To dash; to throw violently.
Bang
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
Ding
(transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
Bang
An explosive product.
Load the bang into the hole.
Ding
To fire or reject.
His top school dinged him last week.
Bang
(slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
Ding
To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
Bang
An abrupt left turn.
Ding
To mishit (a golf ball).
Bang
Strong smell (of)
There was a bang of onions off his breath.
Ding
(intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
Bang
(slang) A thrill.
Ding
(transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
Bang
(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
The fireworks banged away all through the night.
Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!
My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
Ding
To level up.
Bang
(ambitransitive) To hit hard.
He banged the door shut.
David and Mary banged into each other.
Ding
To dash; to throw violently.
To ding the book a coit's distance from him.
Bang
To engage in sexual intercourse.
We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
Ding
To cause to sound or ring.
Bang
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
Ding
To strike; to thump; to pound.
Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves.
Bang
(transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
Ding
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
Bang
To inject intravenously.
Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
Ding
To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
Bang
To depress the prices in (a market).
Ding
A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Bang
To excel or surpass.
Ding
Go `ding dong', like a bell
Bang
Right, directly.
The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
Bang
Precisely.
He arrived bang on time.
Bang
With a sudden impact.
Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
Bang
A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!"
Bang
To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
Bang
To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
Bang
To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; - usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene.
Bang
To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
Bang
To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene.
Bang
To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
Bang
A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
Many a stiff thwack, many a bang.
Bang
The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion.
Bang
A surge of pleasure; a thrill; - usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump.
Bang
An exclamation point; - used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu).
Bang
An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene.
Bang
The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; - usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes.
His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang.
Bang
See Bhang.
Bang
A vigorous blow;
The sudden knock floored him
He took a bash right in his face
He got a bang on the head
Bang
A sudden very loud noise
Bang
A fringe of banged hair (cut short squarely across the forehead)
Bang
The swift release of a store of affective force;
They got a great bang out of it
What a boot!
He got a quick rush from injecting heroin
He does it for kicks
Bang
A conspicuous success;
That song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career
That new Broadway show is a real smasher
The party went with a bang
Bang
Strike violently;
Slam the ball
Bang
To produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound;
One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed
Bang
Close violently;
He slammed the door shut
Bang
Move noisily;
The window banged shut
The old man banged around the house
Bang
Have sexual intercourse with;
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
Bang
Leap, jerk, bang;
Bullets spanged into the trees
Bang
Directly;
He ran bang into the pole
Ran slap into her
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