different between piing vs pling
piing
English
Verb
piing
- present participle of pi
Anagrams
- in pig
Tagalog
Adjective
piíng
- dented (of metal, tin cans, parts of automobiles, etc.)
Synonyms
- yupi
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pling
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
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 (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).
- 1989, "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
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)
- sports field
- square
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