Tang vs Yang - What's the difference?
tang | yang |
(obsolete) tongue
* 1667 , , Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew , Act V,
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
* 1904 ,
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
(figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
* Fuller
* Jeffrey
* 1913 ,
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.
(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.
The vagina; intercourse with a woman
* 2002 , Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed , St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0-312-31363-2, page 9,
(label) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, elements of the natural world.
(rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
* 1902 , Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl
* 1957 , Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899
The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
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As nouns the difference between tang and yang
is that tang is pliers while yang is yang.tang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
- The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
- Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
- Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
- a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
- 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?
Synonyms
* bite * piquancy * spicinessAntonyms
* blandness * dullnessDerived terms
* tangy * clown tang * purple tang * Red Sea sailfin tang * sohal tang * spotted unicorn tang * yellow tangSee also
*Etymology 2
imitativeVerb
(en verb)- Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.
Etymology 3
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare DanishEtymology 4
From poontang by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- The guys like to look at her tang , because that's how they are
References
Anagrams
* ----yang
English
Etymology 1
From early romanizations of Chinese , originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings (wikipedia)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Etymology 3
Imitative.Verb
(en verb)- Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.
- Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.