Triad vs Tong - What's the difference?
triad | tong |
A grouping of three.
(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
* 1998 , Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity , page 232:
As nouns the difference between triad and tong
is that triad is a grouping of three while tong is an instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.As a verb tong is
to use tongs.triad
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (group of three) threesome, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, triumvirateSee also
* monad * dyad * mafia * tong * yakuza * ("triad" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
*tong
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .Noun
(en noun)- these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs' in some lists: in order to make a '''tong''' one needs a '''tong''', and how could the first '''tong''' be made without a ' tong ?
