gong

verb

Definition of gongnext
as in to ding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gong
  1. ding
  2. clang
  3. ping
  4. jingle
  5. tinkle
  6. clash
  7. clink
  8. plunk
Verb
  • The timer also dings loudly, which some users may find irritating.
    Caroline Thomason, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Teams may ding Miller for being a 20-year-old freshman, but the Alabama guard's skill as an offensive talent is undeniable.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 19 Jan. 2023
Definition of ding
Verb
  • Metro Boomin’s clanging trap beat guides their flows, shifting from icy and spartan to lush and dreamy and back.
    Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
  • There are all sorts of weird noises coming from the lake — like, clanging sounds — and Paris’s dog keeps barking at it for no reason.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of clang
Verb
  • The call was pinged in the area of the Charles Hall Bridge on the Cherahola Skyway in Tellico Plains, a small mountain town in Tennessee with a population of about 800 people.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Users can take an on-demand hearing test on their iPhone—the earbuds ping each ear with different frequencies at varying volumes.
    Christopher Null, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Definition of ping
Verb
  • Christmas stays and plays December is just moments away and those jingle bells are jingling.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
  • So hurry up, and jingle all the way to your nearest Dairy Queen.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of jingle
Verb
  • Guests in silk blouses and slacks sipped scotch while the piano man tinkled the keys.
    Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
  • That had to have felt like Old Man Winter tinkling on his shoulder.
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of tinkle
Verb
  • Sky will be showing the 2pm and 4.30pm matches, so the Spurs match could not clash.
    Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • During Trump’s first presidency, tech executives, including from Google, Facebook and Apple, clashed with his administration for banning immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of clash
Verb
  • And then Mangold and I clink our teacups together in a kind of homage to both Now, Voyager and to Bob Dylan, the man himself.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The party guests—the artist-honorees and their partners, collectors, museum trustees, funders, and hangers-on—were clad in their finest evening attire, clinking champagne flutes and posing for pictures at a pre-dinner reception on The Shed’s fourth floor.
    Helen Holmes, ARTnews.com, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of clink
Verb
  • The year is 2019; we’re plunked into the middle of a tense winner-take-all match between Josh and Art, with Tashi keeping an eagle eye on both men.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Instead, Roberts watched Hudson plunk slumping Yankees star Aaron Judge, give up a long single off the wall to Jazz Chisholm Jr., then walk Giancarlo Stanton to load the bases.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of plunk
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