Din vs. Ding — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Din and Ding
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Din
A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds.
Ding
Make a ringing sound
Cash registers were dinging softly
Din
To stun with deafening noise.
Ding
Dent (something).
Din
To instill by wearying repetition
Dinned the Latin conjugations into the students' heads.
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Ding
Used to imitate a metallic ringing sound resembling a bell.
Din
To make a loud noise.
Ding
A mark or dent on the bodywork of a car, boat, or other vehicle.
Din
A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
Ding
A lively party or celebration.
Din
(intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
Ding
To ring; clang.
Din
(intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
Ding
To speak persistently and repetitiously.
Din
(transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
Ding
To cause to clang, as by striking.
Din
(transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
Ding
To instill with constant repetition
Dinged advice into my head.
Din
Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
He knew the battle's din afar.
The dust and din and steam of town.
Ding
To dent or nick
I dinged the rear bumper when I backed into another car.
Din
To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
Ding
To hit or strike
He was dinged on the head by a ball.
Din
To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
This hath been often dinned in my ears.
Ding
To penalize, as in assigning a score
The professor dinged the student for the typos in her essay.
Din
To sound with a din; a ding.
The gay viol dinning in the dale.
Ding
(Slang) To shoot, especially with a gun
She dinged the target with her first shot.
Din
A loud harsh or strident noise
Ding
A ringing sound.
Din
The act of making a noisy disturbance
Ding
A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.
Din
Make a resonant sound, like artillery;
His deep voice boomed through the hall
Ding
A minor penalty or deduction, as in a score.
Din
Instill (into a person) by constant repetition;
He dinned the lessons into his students
Ding
(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
Ding
(colloquial) A rejection.
I just got my first ding letter.
Ding
The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
Ding
The act of levelling up.
Ding
An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
Ding
(Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
Ding
(transitive) To hit or strike.
Ding
To dash; to throw violently.
Ding
(transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
Ding
To fire or reject.
His top school dinged him last week.
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.
Ding
To mishit (a golf ball).
Ding
(intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
Ding
(transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
Ding
To level up.
Ding
To dash; to throw violently.
To ding the book a coit's distance from him.
Ding
To cause to sound or ring.
Ding
To strike; to thump; to pound.
Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves.
Ding
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
Ding
To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
Ding
A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Ding
Go `ding dong', like a bell
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