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tang
1[ tang ]
noun
- a strong taste or flavor.
Synonyms: savor
- the distinctive flavor or quality of a thing.
- a pungent or distinctive odor.
- a touch or suggestion of something; slight trace.
- a long and slender projecting strip, tongue, or prong forming part of an object, as a chisel, file, or knife, and serving as a means of attachment for another part, as a handle or stock.
- a surgeonfish.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with a tang.
tang
2[ tang ]
T'ang
3[ tahng ]
noun
- a dynasty in China, a.d. 618–907, marked by territorial expansion, the invention of printing, and the high development of poetry.
Tang
1/ tæŋ /
noun
- the imperial dynasty of China from 618–907 ad
tang
2/ tæŋ /
noun
- a strong taste or flavour
the tang of the sea
- a pungent or characteristic smell
the tang of peat fires
- a trace, touch, or hint of something
a tang of cloves in the apple pie
- the pointed end of a tool, such as a chisel, file, knife, etc, which is fitted into a handle, shaft, or stock
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tang1
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Example Sentences
Assuredly no living man is thus and thus; or are the T'ang epicists returned to earth?
When T'ang had all below heaven, he chose Yi-yin from the many, lifted him up, and the men without love fled.
In twelfth-century Europe a man might have been greatly moved by a Romanesque church and found nothing in a T'ang picture.
Under the T'ang dynasty the belief in wer-vixens, who changed into fascinating women to tempt men, was prevalent.
The foreign policy of this first period of the T'ang, lasting until about 690, was mainly concerned with the Turks and Turkestan.
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