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Tong vs Wong - What's the difference?

tong | wong |

As a noun tong

is tone, shade.

As a proper noun wong is

of chinese origin.

tong

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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 ?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use tongs.
  • To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

    • See also

    * tongs

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Chinese secret society or gang.

    • See also

    * triad * yakuza ----

    wong

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, except in placenames) A field or other piece of land.

    • Anagrams

    * ----