What's the difference between beep and ping?

Beep


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That’s the kind of paranoia Domestic Drone Countermeasures (DDC) is hoping to tap into with its new personal drone detection system (PDDS) Kickstarter project – a black box that promises to go beep when a drone flies within 15m of its sensors.
  • (2) So all "conversations" would effectively run like this (I'll translate as we go along): You: Beep ("PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE.")
  • (3) Almost 30 minutes after the protest was due to end taxis still lined the roads around Charing Cross, beeping their horns continuously.
  • (4) It sounds like you're at sea, I say, between the beeps and crackles.
  • (5) Instead of R-wave synchronous beeping tones during deactivation, double beeping tones were heard.
  • (6) The BEEP program has relevance for pediatric practice in demonstrating a component of health care with greater diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for educational competence in young children.
  • (7) Ireland wasn’t always this way: cars beeping in approval at our giant rainbow flags.
  • (8) The black box, which claims to beep when a non-military drone flies within 15 metres of it, is available on the crowd funding site Kickstarter.
  • (9) Instead of having to think of an amusing Facebook update to impress your friends, each of whom is so consumed with agonising over their own update they're only pretending to pay attention anyway, you simply push a button and transmit a little beep.
  • (10) Google Play (@GooglePlay) First R2D2 was all like "Beep boop beep" and then #BB8 was all like "Beep beep boop."
  • (11) Only a handful of demonstrators are visible, but drivers beep their horns in support as they drive past.
  • (12) Film-buyers flit around, desperately trying to discover which films are beeping on their rivals' radar, and to establish what is being bought and by whom.
  • (13) It begins with a slow beep that fades in over a minute and a half.
  • (14) The only sound is the chirping of late-summer cicadas and the occasional beep of a Geiger counter.
  • (15) The main disadvantage of the technique is the necessity of interruption of the patient's physical activity at the moment of recording indicated by an audible "beep".
  • (16) I'd favour a short, electronic beep, not unlike the noise emitted each time Pac-Man eats a dot.
  • (17) Photograph: AP Nevertheless, celebrations in the Gambia began as soon as Barrow had made his speech, with drivers beeping their horns in elation and people leaning out of car windows, waving their arms, in scenes reminiscent of the outpouring of joy after the election result was announced.
  • (18) Yet nobody testing the system seems to have tried generating the beep in the operator's ear by the electronic equivalent of a coin flip.
  • (19) A policewoman hops to the side, to avoid blocking our shot, and there's a chorus of clicks, whirrs and focus beeps.
  • (20) Mark wrote to me to say: ‘[beep] off, you look like an alien egg’.

Ping


Definition:

  • (n.) The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
  • (v. i.) To make the sound called ping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (2) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (3) The kinetic data are compatible with a tert-uni ping-pong mechanism, as in the case of the 'classical' glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9).
  • (4) Hu Ping, a US-based editor and friend of Liu, asked why the international community was not doing more to secure his release.
  • (5) Initial-velocity kinetic studies indicate the enzyme acts by a ping-pong mechanism.
  • (6) Initial velocity and isotope exchange studies confirmed that the over-all reaction, like that catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase purified from rat liver and chicken liver, was a nonclassical Ping Pong Bi Bi Uni Uni sequence with ATP and HCO3-binding randomly in the Bi Bi partial reaction.
  • (7) The asymptotic kinetics of lipoamide oxidoreductions switch between the ping pong and ordered mechanisms by varying pH of the reactions.
  • (8) The assurances we are getting from those that are protecting him is that he is not far from Bamako," Ping said.
  • (9) Penetration of these drugs into perforated ping pong balls implanted intraperitoneally in rabbits was studied.
  • (10) Rare is the interview that concludes with the subject pinging one’s bra strap.
  • (11) The results obtained were consistent with a ping-pong or substitution mechanism.
  • (12) Since each catalytic cycle step is irreversible, the data fit a peroxidase ping-pong mechanism rather than an ordered bi-bi ping-pong mechanism.
  • (13) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
  • (14) It seems most probable that, as previously suggested by others for Ts, eIF-2B effectively catalyses an exchange reaction through a "ping-pong" type mechanism.
  • (15) Right up until the 79th minute, when the substitute Ramires pinged a 25-yard shot beyond Tim Krul, Chelsea were unconvincing.
  • (16) Such distension results in an area of tympanic resonance or ping.
  • (17) Initial velocity studies indicate that the enzymatic reaction proceeds by a Ping-Pong mechanism.
  • (18) This reaction pathway is compared with the double displacement (Ping Pong) mechanisms that have previously been described for pyruvate carboxylases from other sources.
  • (19) The wild-type enzyme and Y177F mutant displayed ping-pong kinetics, but the Y177S and Y177G mutants appeared to have switched to an ordered sequential mechanism.
  • (20) But I don’t think [Lords chief whip] Ben Stoneham is going to be very accommodating to anyone.” Brexit weekly briefing: article 50 moves closer but EU dashes divorce deal hopes Read more Labour has promised no “extended ping pong” as it does not want to frustrate the timetable for triggering article 50, but it has laid eight amendments on issues from EU nationals to quarterly reporting to parliament about the Brexit process.

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