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Brang vs Prang - What's the difference?

brang | prang |

As verbs the difference between brang and prang

is that brang is simple past of bring while prang is to crash an aeroplane.

As a noun prang is

a bombing raid.

brang

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bring)

  • bring

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bringen, from (etyl) ).

    Verb

  • (lb) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  • * {{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, by=(Lanfranc of Milan)
  • , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, isbn=1163911380 , publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location=London, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker, page=63 , passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge' togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne ' brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
  • *
  • At twilight in the summeron the floor.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’
  • * {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
  • , title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, newsfeed=true , passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time.}}
  • To supply or contribute.
  • *
  • *:“it is not fair of you to bring' against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without ' bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • (lb) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}
  • To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • It seems so preposterous a thingthat they do not easily bring themselves to it.
  • To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
  • (lb) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
  • Usage notes
    Past (brang) and past participle (brung) and (broughten) forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "bring") * bring about * bring around * bring back * bring down * bring forth * bring forwards * bring home * bring in * bring it * bring it on * bring off * bring on * bring out * bring round * bring to * bring to light * bring up * inbring * outbring

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopeia

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound of a telephone ringing.
  • prang

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, military slang) A bombing raid.
  • (slang, dated) An aeroplane crash.
  • * 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories , HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page,
  • I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia.
  • (chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
  • * 1984 , Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel , page 105,
  • The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.
  • * 1999 , Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam , page 209,
  • If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs .
  • * 2009 , Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio , page 90,
  • The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang .
  • (US, slang) Crack cocaine.
  • (architecture) A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia.
  • * 1995 , Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996 , page 216,
  • The prang' is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller ' prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.
  • * 2001 , Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok , page 119,
  • The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.

    Synonyms

    * (minor accident involving a motor vehicle): bingle (Australia), collision, crash, fender-bender (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, dated) To crash an aeroplane.
  • * 1946 , , Song of India , page 332,
  • “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
  • * 2004 , John Pym (editor), Time Out Film Guide , page 70,
  • Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
  • (transitive, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand, UK, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
  • * 1958 , Nation , Issues 1-33, page 56,
  • “Didn?t bump nobody,” I sneer.
    “That?s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn?t say you will prang . It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.”
  • * 2005 , Thomas Marshall, Our Summer in Australia And New Zealand , page 93,
  • On Friday, I picked up our camper van, upgraded to a four sleeper so Elysee and I could each find a neutral corner, which I managed to “prang ,” navigating the parking lot, within one hour of signing away my house as security.

    Derived terms

    * pranged ----