tung
IPA: tˈʌŋ
noun
- A tung tree.
- Obsolete spelling of tongue both as language and as part of the body
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Examples of "tung" in Sentences
- Tung is out of the picture already.
- Tung believed in the importance of education.
- Canton is the established form of Kwang tung.
- I liked the improvements you made to Tung fort.
- Modified tung oil and phenolic resins are often used.
- Thanh Tung's mother is a devoted and loving wife and mother.
- Some manufacturers recommend tung oil as a stabiliser for CCA.
- In this she is aided by Chin tung, the mandarin's male secretary.
- Tung oil, derived from tung nuts, was used as a drying agent in paints.
- The stamps appeared in 1945, and were typographed by the Dah Tung Book Co.
- It would be unfair to say, as many do, that Mao Tse-tung is not a patriot and a nationalist.
- The other is at An-tung, which is important because of its situation on the Yalu River opposite the Korean frontier.
- In some trees, such as tung, cessation of growth and the initiation of rest is caused by the change from long to short day-lengths.
- By 1960, China was experiencing a full-blown depression of staggering proportions, a phenomenon which, according to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung is exclusively reserved for the decadent capitalist world.
- Siding with Wilson as the controversy gained momentum, a Cambridge University classicist, Sir John Cheke, was equally repulsed by the recent developments: “I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges.”
- Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look - what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him.
- Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look — what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him.
- Yung-p'ing-hsien lay over to the right, fifteen li from Ch'u-tung, which is protected from the elements by a bell-shaped hill at the foot of a mountain lit up with gold from the sinking sun, which dipped as I trudged along the uneven zigzag road leading across the plain of peas and beans and winter crops.
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