different between paling vs pling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?l??/

Verb

paling

1. present participle of pale

Noun

paling (plural palings)

1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 20, p. 117,^[2]

     The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, 2014, Chapter 6,^[3]

     The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.

2. A fence made of palings.
   • 1789, Alderman Le Mesurier^[4], addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,^[5] London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,^[6]

     Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), Chapter 12, page 142,^[7]

     The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.

3. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118,^[8]

     He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.

Alternative forms

• pailing

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Galpin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch paling, from Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.l??/

Noun

paling (plural palinge, diminutive palinkie)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.l??/
• Hyphenation: pa?ling
• Rhymes: -a?l??

Noun

paling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje n)

1. eel

Synonyms

• aal

Derived terms

• palingvisser
• palingvisserij

Descendants

• Afrikaans: paling

Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

paling

1. majority

Synonyms

• para

Adjective

paling (Jawi spelling ??????, plural paling-paling)

1. top; greatest, super
2. mainstream

Adverb

paling (Jawi spelling ??????)

1. most, very

Synonyms

• terlalu
• sungguh

Further reading

• “paling” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

pling (plural plings)

1. (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 (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.advocacy)

     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 (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.apps)

     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

• Associated with Acorn Computers, e.g. used in the 1980 manual for the Acorn Atom, Atomic Theory and Practice by David Johnson-Davies.

West Flemish

Noun

pling n (plural plings)

1. sports field
2. square