pinking BrE
pinging AmE

"Not in yet," said Mother guiltily, her face pinking.

To prevent excessive fraying cut out using sharp pinking shears.

I saw her face pinking, blood vessels near the surface rupturing as the plasma boiled.

For instance, blackbirds will mob owls, producing a high intensity pinking call.

The operation of the shears are described as "pinking" or "scalloping."

Do you know what pinking is?

The noise is probably pre-ignition, commonly called pinking.

The verb sense of the word "pink" continues to be used today in the name of the hand tool known as pinking shears.

And when they had completed a hole four feet deep or so, they rested, leaning upon their tools, watching the pinking of dawn.

Attempts to create films for adults only (dubbed "pinking") wound up bringing large audiences of all ages to cinemas.

"Hello, Kaye," she said, her face pinking.

But rather than conventional leather crafting, Lauren's latest pieces have details - perforations and pinking, for example - that resemble a man's shoe.

Pinking (disambiguation)

Thositive pinking.'

Briskman was also entitled to sell abroad under the name of Pinking Shears Corp. through his agents.

He formed the Pinking Shears Corporation and set up a factory at 102 Prince Street in Manhattan.

The pressure can cause the gasoline to ignite early (pre-ignition or detonation) causing a damaging "engine knocking" (also called "pinging" or "pinking") noise.

What pinking of thin stockings, and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels."

Gasoline, when used in high-compression internal combustion engines, has a tendency to autoignite (detonate) causing damaging "engine knocking" (also called "pinging" or "pinking") noise.

A leak had developed in a portion of the roof above the flies; there was still a slight pinking of waterdrops splattering behind the flats of the living-room set.

It being now what the people called the "pinking in" of the day, that is, the quarter-hour just before dusk, he did not at first observe the result of his own words upon her.

But somewhere along the line he suspected there would be a time when he stood toe to toe with an enemy, and there would be no pinking in that duel.

In other words, Benjamin Luscalzo brought traditional Scissors and the pinking blade together to create what we know today as "Pinking Shears"

As you have an 8:1 compression engine (or slightly higher if the cylinder head has been skimmed) set the timing to 3 deg A T D C and the pinking should disappear.

Pinging, afraid of going slower, Saratov aimed for the tunnel.

Pinging was heard for a while longer, and distant depth charges were heard for several hours.

Pinging is currently not allowed.

The review is actually carried out by the interception of communications commissioner's office (Pinging, how it works, 13 July, page 6).

Pinging secured, sir."

Although it still has an ample of errors throughout the platform, the Heello community is working to help pull Heello back to its feet, and after 4 days of launching the new Heello, it already has over 65% of its user base back on and Pinging.