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Yang vs Yank - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between yang and yank

is that yang is a principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world while yank is a sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).

As verbs the difference between yang and yank

is that yang is to make the cry of the wild goose while yank is to pull something with a quick, strong action.

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

(-)
  • (label) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, elements of the natural world.
    • Related terms
    * (complement) yin * (unity) yin-yang

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided 100 pun.

    • Etymology 3

    Imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
  • * 1902 , Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl
    • 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.
  • * 1957 , Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899
    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1867 , year_published= , author= Gail Hamilton , by= , title=Wool-gathering , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=jPEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Ticknor and Fields , location= Boston , editor= , volume= , page= 185 , passage= Hangs'' is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect ''yang , — an onomatopœian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose. }} ----

    yank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).

    • Synonyms

    * jerk, tug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pull something with a quick, strong action.
  • to remove from circulation
    • They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.

    Synonyms

    * (pull with a quick strong action) jerk, tug * (remove from circulation) pull, recall

    References

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