different between pinging vs pinning

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n??/
• Homophone: penning (pin–pen merger)

Verb

pinning

1. present participle of pin

Noun

pinning (countable and uncountable, plural pinnings)

1. The action of the verb pin in any sense.
2. A ceremony in which a pin badge is given.
   • 2003, James A. Schnell, Case Studies in Culture and Communication: A Group Perspective

     There were a variety of informal traditional activities that occurred in recognition of events such as birthdays, pinnings (when a member gave his fraternity pin to his girlfriend to acknowledge preengagement), and engagements.

3. (physics) The establishment of the definite quantum state of a particle, or of the occupation number of a system of particles

Derived terms

• quasipinning