ping vs pip

ping

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

  • 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. 

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. 

pip

noun
  • One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc. 

  • A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation 

  • A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip. 

  • The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading. 

  • One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman. 

  • Something or someone excellent, of high quality. 

  • A spot; a speck. 

  • One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call. 

  • Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. 

verb
  • To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin 

  • To hit with a gunshot 

  • To peep, to chirp 

  • To remove the pips from. 

  • To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg 

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