tang
tang (taŋ)
noun
- a projecting point or prong on a chisel, file, knife, etc., that fits into a handle, shaft, etc.
- a strong and penetrating taste or odor
- a touch or trace (of some quality)
- a special or characteristic flavor, quality, etc.
- ☆ surgeonfish
Etymology: ME tange < ON tangi, a sting, point, dagger, nasalized form of base seen in tack
transitive verb
to provide (a knife, etc.) with a tang
tang (taŋ)
noun
a loud, ringing sound; twang
Etymology: echoic
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to sound with a loud ringing
Tang (täŋ)
noun
618-906 ; Chin. dynasty under which literature & art flourished & printing was developed
Preposition: of
- sea: The flavors were fresh with the tang of the sea.
- blade: Knife handles were commonly made of two flat plates of bone riveted onto the metal tang of the blade.
- salt: It smelled strong of the fog, like the smell of a washing-house, but with a shrewd tang of the sea salt.
Converse of object
- add: Dry Montilla is like a dry Sherry and adds a salty tang to the finish.
- have: One conifer tastes of fruit cake another has the fresh citrus tang of oranges.
- smell: I took down A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, and smelled the tang of dust.
Adjective modifier
- regal: Marlin sets off to look for Nemo, joined by Dory, a regal blue tang with a short memory span.
- salty: These give the milk, hence the cheese, a slightly salty tang, which is still a characteristic of Cheshire cheese today.
- citrus: One conifer tastes of fruit cake another has the fresh citrus tang of oranges.
- yellow: Picture 8 Even marine reptiles need a clean, such as this green turtle being cleaned by Hawaiian yellow tangs.
- sharp: A sharp, resinous tang of burning was in the air.
- blue: Marlin sets off to look for Nemo, joined by Dory, a regal blue tang with a short memory span.
Modifies a noun
- dynasty: My money back the tang dynasty where darkness covers some of the.
- construction: It retains the full tang construction of the rest of the knives with a longer handle that is made to suit larger hands.
- museum: Two young crew the inland rivers tang dynasty museum medical care laundry.
- approx: Purple Tang 5-6 " I have for sale 1 purple tang approx 5-6 " .. .
- screw: Do not swing on the screw driver, the tang screw should be merely " nipped up " to position.
- sight: However, adjustment may be achieved either by lateral displacement of the front sight or by shimming the base of the tang sight.
Noun used with modifier
- triggerfish: Squid triggerfish tangs passed us on great coral reefs.
- squid: Squid triggerfish tangs passed us on great coral reefs.
Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
Browse dictionary entries near tang
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- tangible
- tangible asset
- tangible property
- Tangier
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