impingement encroachment impact | influencing strongly, they resented the impingement of American values on European culture |
table tennis Ping-Pong | a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball |
slight care | such care as a careless or inattentive person would exercise |
shock impact | the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat, the armies met in the shock of battle |
rebuff slight | a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) |
imitative electronic deception electronic imitative deception | the introduction of electromagnetic energy into enemy systems that imitates enemy emissions |
impact printer | a printer that prints by mechanical impacts |
ping-pong ball | light hollow ball used in playing table tennis |
table-tennis table ping-pong table pingpong table | a table used for playing table tennis |
impact | the striking of one body against another |
ping | a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal) |
Ping Ping River | a river in western Thailand, a major tributary of the Chao Phraya |
Deng Xiaoping Teng Hsiao-ping Teng Hsiaoping | Chinese communist statesman (-) |
impact wallop | a forceful consequence, a strong effect, the book had an important impact on my thinking, the book packs a wallop |
affect impact bear upon bear on touch on touch | have an effect upon, Will the new rules affect me? |
slight cold-shoulder | pay no attention to, disrespect, She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance |
ping | send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active, ping your machine in the office |
ping | contact, usually in order to remind of something, I'll ping my accountant--April is nearing |
ping | hit with a pinging noise, The bugs pinged the lamp shade |
impact | press or wedge together, pack together |
ping | make a short high-pitched sound, the bullet pinged when they struck the car |
pink ping knock | sound like a car engine that is firing too early, the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline, The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded |
slender slight slim svelte | being of delicate or slender build, she was slender as a willow shoot is slender- Frank Norris, a slim girl with straight blonde hair, watched her slight figure cross the street |
counterfeit imitative | not genuine, imitating something superior, counterfeit emotion, counterfeit money, counterfeit works of art, a counterfeit prince |
imitative | marked by or given to imitation, acting is an imitative art, man is an imitative being |
echoic imitative onomatopoeic onomatopoeical onomatopoetic | (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound, onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises, it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term- Harry Hoijer |
little(a) slight | (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree, not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some, little rain fell in May, gave it little thought, little time is left, we still have little money, a little hope remained, there's slight chance that it will work, there's a slight chance it will work |
flimsy fragile slight tenuous thin | lacking substance or significance, slight evidence, a tenuous argument, a thin plot, a fragile claim to fame |