tang
IPA: tˈæŋ
noun
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
- (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
- (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
- (countable, vulgar slang) The vagina.
- (uncountable, vulgar slang) sexual intercourse with a woman
- The imperial dynasty of China which reigned from 618 to 907.
- The Turkic dynasty of China which lasted from 923 to 936.
- A kingdom in China which existed between 937 and 975.
- Any of a number of places in China.
- A county of Baoding, Hebei, China.
- A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
- A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
- A Chinese surname from Teochew.
- A Chinese surname from Min Nan.
- Any of a number of places, including a village in Iran and a village in Afghanistan.
- Obsolete form of tongue. [The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.]
verb
- (dated, beekeeping) 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.
- To make a ringing sound; to ring.
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Examples of "tang" in Sentences
- It had a great flavor, with a nice butteriness and a very subtle tang from the long first rise.
- Some find the tang of Pinkberry excessive, even aggressive; others say that yogurt without tang is just low-fat ice cream.
- It comes out to be closer to the consistency of buttermilk than yogurt does and still has a little of that tang from the vinegar.
- With an 870 and almost any other shotgun, the end grain of the stock where it joins the action at the tang is a usual trouble spot for oil soaking.
- Cynthia -- There's no need to work up the courage as it's both sweet and rich with nary a hint of the usual goat's milk strong tang (instead, the tang is rather subtle at best).
- Yes | No | Report from bigjake wrote 11 weeks 6 days ago not crazy about the safety on my old stevens 5000, only because of its postion on the tang is too close to the stock, and I have large hands, Im always checking the safety to make sure it hasnt been brushed ahead by hitting my hand.
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