(v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
(n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deleted peptide corresponds precisely to the sequence coded by exon 46 of the normal pro-alpha 1(I) gene (Chu, M.-L., de Wet, W., Bernard, M., Ding, J.F., Morabito, M., Myers, J., Williams, C., and Ramirez, F. (1984) Nature 310, 337-340).
(2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
(3) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(4) Plant tissue cultures of Maytenus wallichiana Raju et Babu and Maytenus emarginata Ding Hou were initiated.
(5) Martin pantomimes the motion, holing up his fingers dramatically, and Malhotra chimes in with a “ding!” when the phantom bullet falls.
(6) When you get a ring-ding on Christmas, it might not be Santa,” he said.
(7) And when the US president pokes his finger in this one, it is a hornets nest.” Shen Dingli, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert from Shanghai’s Fudan University, told the New York Times such behaviour from Trump could not be tolerated once he reached the White House.
(8) Like the peaceful activities of Ding – a 73-year-old retired philosopher and grieving mother – Wuerkaixi's presence is unacceptable to a state determined to suppress memory of the Tiananmen protests.
(9) Among the remaining patrons are the actor Sean Bean, snooker player Ding Junhui and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Nick Matthew.
(10) Call me a boring old class war moo, but I've watched several episodes of Made In Chelsea and at no point has Fenella Flumpinton-Ding-Dong's mother pointed her towards prostitution, whinnying, "Go on darling, get your pants off, help us out."
(11) On top of the sex scandal there was a ding-dong over whether the post should go, as it always has, to another European – another French one, at that – when the global economy today bears no resemblance to the one for which the job was originally designed in 1945.
(12) [Ranieri] could see that mentally we were still in bed, so he shouted: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!
(13) • The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint about Radio 1's decision to cut down Ding Dong!
(14) It will be Hall's first appearance before MPs since he was appointed director general and he is likely to face a grilling about how the BBC plans to move on after the Savile scandal, along with his handling of recent rows over anti-Thatcher song Ding Dong!
(15) The Official Charts Company said on Thursday morning that Ding Dong!
(16) In a speech at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding in Clear Lake on Friday, Clinton not only painted the scandal which has led to an FBI investigation as a partisan witch-hunt – she made a joke of it.
(17) The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint about Radio 1's decision to cut down Ding Dong!
(18) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(19) A comparison of the nucleotide sequence of pGTB42 with the sequence of a Ya clone, pGTB38, described previously by our laboratory (Pickett, C. B., Telakowski-Hopkins, C. A., Ding, G. J.-F., Argenbright, L., and Lu, A.Y.H.
(20) Since then, the North has ratcheted up its rhetoric, tested another nuclear device and launched a Taepodong 2 long-range rocket (the international reaction being neatly summarised in the Sun's headline, "It's All Gone Pete Tong: Kim Jong in Taepodong Ding-dong").
Dinger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He blasts 156 dingers in three seasons in Dallas, although the Rangers suck and are financially hamstrung because of the deal.
(2) The absence of polysorbate 80, thiamine, or vitamin B12 prevented the appearance of Dinger's zones of growth from small inocula.
(3) Chromosomal DNA from dinger zones (visible subsurface zones of leptospiral growth) of first semisolid subcultures of field isolates was also isolated and characterized, thus greatly speeding up the diagnostic process.
(4) All of that is pretty much what he told assembled Wing Dingers, informally referring back to notes on a card and going through his CV.