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Tang   /tæŋ/  /tɑŋ/   Listen
noun
Tang  n.  (Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fucus nodosus).
Tang sparrow (Zool.), the rock pipit. (Prov. Eng.)



Tang  n.  
1.
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.
2.
Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang. "Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny." "A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics."
3.
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. Specifically:
(a)
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
(b)
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
(c)
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
(d)
The tongue of a buckle. (Prov. Eng.)



Tang  n.  A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.



Tang  n.  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.



verb
Tang  v. t.  (past & past part. tanged; pres. part. tanging)  To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. "Let thy tongue tang arguments of state."
To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.



Tang  v. i.  To make a ringing sound; to ring. "Let thy tongue tang arguments of state."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tang" Quotes from Famous Books



... when morning came, the old routine was dragged through with. Directions had to be given the servants as usual, Allan's comfort and amusement seen to, just as if nothing had happened. It was a perfect day, golden and perfumed, with just that little tang of fresh windiness that June days have in the northern states. And Allan must not lose it—he must be wheeled out ...
— The Rose Garden Husband • Margaret Widdemer

... fulfilled, as good as we painted them! The prismatic splendours of the rain bow, which gleam before us and which we toil to catch, are but grey rain-drops when caught. Joys attract and, attained, have incompleteness and a tang of bitterness. The fish is never so heavy when landed on the sward as it felt when struggling on our hook. 'All is vanity'—yes, if creatures and things temporal are pursued as our good. But nothing is vanity, if we have the life in us which Jesus comes to give. His Gospel gives solid, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... in waves, as though full-bosomed summer lay breathing her great promises close at hand, while spring, still lingering, with bright eyes of dew,' watched over her. Then, suddenly, behind these richer scents, I caught a sweeter, wilder tang than anything they contained, and turning, saw that the pines were closer than I knew. A waft of something purer, fresher, reached my nostrils on a little noiseless wind, as, leaning across the gate, I turned my back upon ...
— The Garden of Survival • Algernon Blackwood

... hole in the plate in such a position as to be readily seized by a mechanical finger, K (Fig. 3), attached to a truck arranged to run backward and forward along one side of the basin. This finger is mounted on an axis, and has a tang projecting at right angles to the side of the basin, so that the whole is in the form of a bell crank ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various

... the faint glow of a blue-green light. And that was all, until—with a crash like the ripping crackle of lightning, a white flame arced between the terminals of the heavy cables. It hissed ceaselessly through the air where now the tang of ozone was apparent. The carbon blocks glowed with a brilliant incandescence when the flame ceased with the motion of a hand ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various


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