Tong vs. Tang — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tong and Tang
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Definitions
Tong
To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs.
Tang
A projection by which a tool, such as a chisel or knife, is attached to its handle or stock. Also called shank.
Tong
A Chinese association or political party.
Tang
A distinctively sharp taste, flavor, or odor, as that of orange juice.
Tong
An association or a secret society of Chinese in the United States, believed to be involved in organized crime.
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Tang
A distinctive quality
"Underneath it all was the tang of genuine adventure" (Jan Clausen).
Tong
(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
Tang
A sharp point, tongue, or prong.
Tong
A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land
Tang
See surgeonfish.
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Tong
A Chinese secret society or gang
Tang
A loud ringing sound; a clang or twang.
Tong
(intransitive) To use tongs.
Tang
To furnish with a tang.
Tong
(transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
Tang
To give a tang to.
Tong
Tongue.
Tang
To resound with a tang or cause to resound with a tang.
Tong
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.
Tang
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
Tang
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
Tang
(figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
Tang
A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
Tang
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
Tang
(firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
Tang
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
Tang
(fish) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
Tang
(games) A shuffleboard paddle.
Tang
(obsolete) tongue
Tang
(by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
Tang
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Tang
(rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum coarse blackish seaweed
Tang
The vagina.
Tang
Sexual intercourse with a woman
Tang
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.
Tang
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Tang
A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Tang
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.
Tang
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.
Tang
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.
Tang
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
Tang
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
Tang
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
Tang
The tongue of a buckle.
Tang
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Tang
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.
Tang
To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Tang
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Tang
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Tang
A tart spiciness
Tang
The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
Tang
Common black rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
Tang
Brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
Tang
Any of various coarse seaweeds
Tang
Any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria