Tong vs. Tang
Tongnoun
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
Tongnoun
A Chinese secret society or gang.
Tongverb
(intransitive) To use tongs.
Tongverb
(transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
Tongnoun
Tongue.
Tongnoun
In China, an association, secret society, or organization of any kind; in the United States, usually, a secret association of Chinese such as that of the highbinders; in the U. S. the tongs have been frequently associated with criminal activity and gang warfare.
Tangnoun
(obsolete) tongue
Tangnoun
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
Tangnoun
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
Tangnoun
(figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
Tangnoun
A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
Tangnoun
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
Tangnoun
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
Tangnoun
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
Tangnoun
Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
Tangnoun
A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
Tangnoun
(shuffleboard) A shuffleboard paddle.
Tangnoun
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang
Tangnoun
(rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum coarse blackish seaweed
Tangnoun
The vagina
Tangnoun
intercourse with a woman
Tangverb
To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
Tangverb
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Tangnoun
A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Tangnoun
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
Tangnoun
Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
Tangnoun
A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
Tangnoun
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
Tangnoun
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
Tangnoun
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
Tangnoun
The tongue of a buckle.
Tangnoun
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Tangnoun
A dynasty in Chinese history, from a. d. 618 to 905, distinguished by the founding of the Imperial Academy (the Hanlin), by the invention of printing, and as marking a golden age of literature.
Tangverb
To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
Tangverb
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Tangnoun
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Tangnoun
a tart spiciness
Tangnoun
the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
Tangnoun
common black rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
Tangnoun
brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
Tangnoun
any of various coarse seaweeds
Tangnoun
any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
