different between pigging vs pinging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????/
• Rhymes: -????

Etymology 1

Adjective

pigging

1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

   I can't get this pigging computer to work.

Synonyms

• blasted, blooming, confounded, damned

Verb

pigging

1. present participle of pig

Noun

pigging (plural piggings)

1. (engineering) The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.
   • 1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings (volume 37, page 1083)

     The main reason for the high efficiencies obtained over previous piggings can be attributed to the vented swabs with the check valve.

Etymology 2

Noun

pigging (plural piggings)

1. Alternative form of piggin
   • 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia

     He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????

Verb

pinging

1. present participle of ping

Noun

pinging (plural pingings)

1. The sound of a ping.
   • 1870, Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (volume 2, page 320)

     […] walking across the open in stern composure, with the pingings of the hostile bullets, and the imploring cries of his comrades to save himself, sounding in his ears.

   • 2011, Ramona DeFelice Long, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (page 202)

     When she entered, her eyes and ears were assaulted by neon lights in bright colors, the hypnotic, musical pingings of electronic slot and poker machines, and the clinking of coins dropping into payout trays.

2. The act of sending a ping, as by a submarine or over a computer network.