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Answer for the clue "Ping or zing ", 5 letters:
noise

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Word definitions for noise in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "loud outcry, clamor, shouting," from Old French noise "din, disturbance, uproar, brawl" (11c., in modern French only in phrase chercher noise "to pick a quarrel"), also "rumor, report, news," apparently from Latin nausea "disgust, annoyance, ...

Usage examples of noise.

It was obvious by the clattering noises over the speaker that Abies was done with them again.

I heard the sound of the scene of the crime squad arriving, and Aden and I both turned our heads instinctively toward the noise.

The noise of the door did not awaken her, and Monte Cristo gazed at her with affectionate regret.

One of the turbine generators and one of the main engines aft was shut down to minimize radiated noise.

Long Hunt in the high-country ridges with the rest of his agemates, and could move through underbrush with no more noise than a passing thought.

An automatic rheostat must have been mounted to the speaker, for the volume rose steadily, until the noise of the storm wind filled the office, a blast of rushing airlike the sounds of an experimental wind tunnel at maximum velocity.

And immediately after her prayer breaks forth, soars upward in a shrill nasal falsetto, like a morning alarum when the hour for waking has come, the mechanical noise of a spring let go and running down.

Only the rustle of creatures alongshore and the noise of crickets or an occasional frog could be heard.

Miss Ames, contrary to popular opinion, at least that which is noised about by physicians, being a doctor does not make me God.

The descent was accomplished with a minimum of noise, and even Amity managed to creep through the shrubbery without attracting the keen ears of the watchdogs.

A quick burst of noise from inside Amour Magique floated out to them on the patio.

Just as I figured out that it was the telephone making the noise, Amrita came in from the bathroom and answered it.

Lisette hugged Angelique against her bosom and silently bade her not to make a noise.

Life, ordered irregularity, aperiodic crystal, signal in a field of noise, required that wonder and reverence, both coded for, beat out success if anything is to survive.

On very stormy days the entire apse seemed to awake and to grumble under the noise of the rain as it beat against the leaden tiles of the roof, running off by the gutters of the cornices and rolling from story to story with the clamour of an overflowing torrent.