to ping
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4.1
- verb
- /pɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
hacer ping
- NASA hopes to ping this object with radar, refining its orbit and possibly measuring its shape.
- ping a device
- ping a system
- ping a cell tower
My client's cell phone is being used and is pinging at the towers of his home.
- My client's cell phone is being used and is pinging at the towers of his home.
- And so every time he would turn his phone on, it would ping and it would give us a direction right north, northeast.
- They tried to see if they could find where that phone was pinging on the night of and the morning after the murders.
- And so for your viewers at home and listeners at home, if they're think about it this way, DHS has a database that states are eligible to ping against.
- So before you would ping off of a Mac mini in a server somewhere and now.
Examples
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We'll try to ping a tower.
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Then you should be able to ping both the Wi-Fi router and terminal server from the desktop or laptop.
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I should be able to ping that IP address.
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For that, it needs to ping a federal data hub that does not yet exist.
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I am able to ping all internal network IPs now.
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I always see when Anthony pings me, and he sees when I ping him.
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From the trixbox server, can you ping the IP address of the remote SIP device?
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Please ping the server to see if it's still active.
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To check the connection, you need to ping the remote device.
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I will ping you later to confirm our meeting time.
Synonyms
To make a short message to check if someone is online
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Ping for checking computers was named after the sonar 'ping' that sends a signal and listens for an echo, so to 'ping' a server is to send a quick signal to see if it answers.