bang vs ping

bang

noun
  • A sudden percussive noise. 

  • An explosion. 

  • An explosive product. 

  • A thrill. 

  • An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano. 

  • A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n! 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A strike upon an object causing such a noise. 

  • An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). 

  • strong smell (of) 

  • An abrupt left turn. 

  • The symbol !, known as an exclamation point. 

adv
  • With a sudden impact. 

  • Precisely. 

  • Right, directly. 

intj
  • A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc. 

verb
  • To inject intravenously. 

  • To hit hard. 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse. 

  • To hammer or to hit anything hard. 

  • To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair). 

  • To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. 

ping

noun
  • A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. 

  • An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement. 

  • Latency. 

  • A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. 

  • A notification. 

  • A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. 

  • A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it. 

verb
  • To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response. 

  • To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. 

  • To flick. 

  • To cause something to bounce. 

  • To bounce. 

  • To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. 

  • To call out audibly. 

  • To penalize. 

  • To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. 

How often have the words bang and ping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )