pling
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Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
pling (plural plings)
- (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- 1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:
- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
- 1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):
- 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.
- 1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:
- 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.
- 1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):
- 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).
Usage notes edit
- Associated with Acorn Computers, e.g. used in the 1980 manual for the Acorn Atom, Atomic Theory and Practice by David Johnson-Davies.
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Etymology 2 edit
Imitative.
Noun edit
pling (plural plings)
Verb edit
pling (third-person singular simple present plings, present participle plinging, simple past and past participle plinged)
- (intransitive) To produce a soft bell-like sound.
- 2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:
- The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.
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Noun edit
pling n
Declension edit
| Declension of pling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | pling | plinget | pling | plingen |
| Genitive | plings | plingets | plings | plingens |
Noun edit
pling c
- (colloquial, in "slå (någon) en pling") to call (someone, on the phone)
- Slå mig en pling när ni är färdiga
- Call me when you're done
Declension edit
| Declension of pling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | pling | plingen | — | — |
| Genitive | plings | plingens | — | — |
Interjection edit
pling
- represents a ding or a ringing sound (often with a high and clear tone)
- Pling! Maten i mikron var klar.
- Ding! The food in the microwave was ready.
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Noun edit
pling n (plural plings)