Rung vs Ranga - What's the difference?
rung | ranga |
A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
(nautical, dated) A floor timber in a ship.
(dated) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
(engineering, dated) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
(engineering, dated) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
(only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)
(chiefly, dialectal) (ring)
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , VI:
*:With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung , / Belle Chuck'' was now the ''TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
* {{quote-journal, journals=Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General ..., page=229,
books.google.com/books?id=YHYbAQAAIAAJ, South Carolina. General Assembly, year=1906, passage=Mr. Seibels, in his testimony, said I rung' him up to see about labels. He is very much mistaken. I ' rung him up to see about bottles.}}
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(Australia, slang, pejorative) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
* 2009 , , Sons of the Rumour ,
* 2010 , , Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010 , Large Print 16pt Edition,
* 2010 , Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary , HarperCollins Australia,
As nouns the difference between rung and ranga
is that rung is a crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round while ranga is an orange-haired or red-haired person.As a verb rung
is past participle of lang=en (only in senses related to a bell — etymology 2)rung
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hrung.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From the verb ring . (en)Verb
(head)Usage notes
"Rang" and "rung" are incorrect for the past of "ring" in the sense of encircle. "Rung" as a simple past is usually considered incorrect.Anagrams
* English irregular past participlesranga
English
Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- You?re looking down upon ‘rangas ’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
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- Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country?s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can?t tell.
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- Fez?s resolutions:
- 3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.