What is "dings"

Usage examples of "dings".

A loudspeaker down the hall gave those xylophone dings that meant God knows what all the time.

From the way he had reacted, you'd have thought he drove a new Rolls rather than a ten-year-old Pontiac with a bumper crop of dings down both sides.

When the timer dings, take the pans out and cover them with foil and put them in the refrigerator.

I sit down on the bed and pull out my tablet just as it dings for attention.

My netlink dings, registering the arrival of more points than I’d normally rack up in a month, an upward adjustment I can blame on the fact that I’m in the same cohort as the little snitch.