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Tang vs Gulf - What's the difference?

tang | gulf |

As nouns the difference between tang and gulf

is that tang is pliers while gulf is a hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.

tang

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) tongue
  • * 1667 , , Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew , Act V,
    • Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
  • A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
  • * 1904 ,
    • The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
  • A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
    • Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  • (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
  • * Fuller
    • Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
  • * Jeffrey
    • a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
  • * 1913 ,
    • What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?
  • 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 group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
    • Synonyms
    * bite * piquancy * spiciness
    Antonyms
    * blandness * dullness
    Derived terms
    * tangy * clown tang * purple tang * Red Sea sailfin tang * sohal tang * spotted unicorn tang * yellow tang
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    imitative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated, beekeeping) 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.Eva Crane, The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting'', Taylor & Francis (1999), ISBN 0415924677, page 239.Hilda M. Ransome, ''The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore , Courier Dover Publications (2004), ISBN 048643494X, page 225.
  • To make a ringing sound; to ring.
    • Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.

    Etymology 3

    Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A coarse blackish seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum )

    • Etymology 4

    From poontang by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The vagina; intercourse with a woman
  • * 2002 , Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed , St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0-312-31363-2, page 9,
    • The guys like to look at her tang , because that's how they are

    References

    Anagrams

    * ----

    gulf

    English

    (wikipedia gulf)

    Alternative forms

    * gulph (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
  • * Milton
    • He then surveyed / Hell and the gulf between.
  • * Bible, Luke xvi. 26
    • Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
  • (obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
  • * 1606 , , IV. i. 23:
    • Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,
  • That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
  • * Tennyson
    • a gulf of ruin, swallowing gold
  • (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico or Persian Gulf.
  • (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
  • A difference, especially a large difference, between groups
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}

    Derived terms

    * engulf * Gulf Coast * Gulf Stream * Gulf War * gulfweed * gulfy