Tong vs. Tang — What's the Difference?

To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs.

A projection by which a tool, such as a chisel or knife, is attached to its handle or stock. Also called shank.

A Chinese association or political party.

A distinctively sharp taste, flavor, or odor, as that of orange juice.

An association or a secret society of Chinese in the United States, believed to be involved in organized crime.

A distinctive quality

(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.

A sharp point, tongue, or prong.

A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land

See surgeonfish.

A Chinese secret society or gang

A loud ringing sound; a clang or twang.

(intransitive) To use tongs.

To furnish with a tang.

(transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

To give a tang to.

Tongue.

To resound with a tang or cause to resound with a tang.

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.

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.

(fish) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.

(games) A shuffleboard paddle.

(obsolete) tongue

(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

The vagina.

Sexual intercourse with a woman

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.

A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).

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.

Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.

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.

The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.

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.

The tongue of a buckle.

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

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.

To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.

To make a ringing sound; to ring.

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

A tart spiciness

The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

Common black rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

Brown algae seaweed with serrated edges

Any of various coarse seaweeds

Any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria