(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").
Dingy
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dinghy
(superl.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
(2) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(3) Ian Napp, a British former chef, had been photographed with an inflatable dingy in a field "just in case" there was a tsunami.
(4) The website shows the rooms are dingy and tasteless: turquoise carpets, small windows, chintz bedspreads.
(5) Their first shelter was a dingy basement in a slum far from São Paulo's bustling financial centre.
(6) By now his own preference was for the interiors of the Paris Opera, the off-stage spaces, the dingy classrooms and peeling walls.
(7) Then, it provides a neat metaphor for the realist's quest for authenticity, the dingy truth of dingy classrooms that lies behind the Opera's glamorous stage façades.
(8) "Suddenly the pop star takes off her sheep's clothing and you see the kind of dingy, underground, metal-loving girl from New York who wants to talk about equal rights and go on and on and on about loving yourself.
(9) Also in Hackney, the National Trust property Sutton House is the venue for an immersive, LGBT-friendly cinema event Amy Grimehouse , and just down the road, dingy club Vogue Fabrics hosts both straight and gay club nights throughout the week.
(10) These prices would be good value for a pretty ordinary B&B in a regional town – for chic digs in London, where you can easily pay £100 for access to a small dingy moth sanctuary, they’re basically unbeatable.
(11) His dingy green-walled apartment is now almost stripped bare following a police raid, with the only signs of its former warmth the photos of his sons and daughter left on one wall.
(12) The correspondence seen by the Guardian also contains the invitation to Madikizela-Mandela sent by Cikizwa Dingi, personal assistant to ANC national spokesman, Jackson Mthembu.
(13) Muhammad told the Guardian he lost everything except the clothes on his back on a journey that included three terrifying hours in the Mediterranean when the dingy he was travelling in between Greece and Turkey capsized.
(14) Every institution now has to have a public face, to justify itself: MI6 has emerged from a dingy building in Lambeth to occupy a glitzy palace on the Thames.
(15) Standup comedians tend to be a bit frustrated and have to find a different way of showing off – on stage in a dark dingy club.
(16) One night the fun had started at the caves and had moved on to a dingy little club down the road.
(17) Playing punk rock shows for 10 people in a dingy bar made sense to me.
(18) I know he is still there, in his dingy South Bohan apartment, waiting for me to rejoin him.
(19) While the old library could be dingy in places, the floors of the new building are washed with daylight, with a continuous line of desks around the floor-to-ceiling windows.
(20) The experiment is taking place in a sprawling hangar at Moscow's Institute for Medical and Biological Problems, in a suburb of dingy tower blocks and poplar trees.