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The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
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A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.
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A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
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A surname from Mandarin
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Four large technology companies, or (metonymically) their stock: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: economics, sciences
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noun
A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
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Synonyms: fangtooth
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noun
Synonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates.
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Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: mandible
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noun
A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom.
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A pointed extension of the chelicera in spiders, used for injecting venom.
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noun
Synonym of tooth, particularly in humans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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Synonyms: tooth, particularly in humans
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noun
Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
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Usage: Scotland, dialectal
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noun
That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
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Usage: Scotland, dialectal
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noun
Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
Synonym of trap or noose.
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Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: trap or noose
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noun
Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
Synonym of root, the part of a tooth embedded in the gums.
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noun
Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
Synonym of root, a major projection of a plant's root system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
Synonym of claw or talon.
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Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: claw or talon
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Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
Synonym of spike or prong, any sharp projection.
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Synonyms: spike or prong, any sharp projection
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noun
Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly
Synonym of tang, the projection of a piece of metal intended to be driven into a shaft for holding.
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noun
Synonym of vang, a line extended from the end of a gaff to control its position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
The valve of a pump-box.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A channel cut or pipe set for the purpose of carrying fresh air to working miners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Derbyshire, dialectal
Topics: business, mining
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noun
Catches on which a coalmining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.
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Usage: in-plural, rare
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: cage-shuts
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A people of western Africa.
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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verb
To strike or attack with the fangs.
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Usage: rare
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verb
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
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verb
To catch, capture; seize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, transitive
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Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip, clutch, lay hold of, beclasp, begrasp, begrip, belock, clench, clinch, cling, enclasp, fang, fondle, glaum, grab, grabble, hang on, hold on, hold tight, hold, nab, nim, seize, stranglehold, take
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To take; receive with assent; accept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: land, lay hands on, score, acquire, accept, attain, come by, cop, enlist, fang, gain, garner, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, lay hold of, obtain, procure, receive, secure, snag, take, win, appropriate, bag, annex, catch, expropriate, grab, grasp, grip, help oneself, hook, impropriate, make free with, nab, nim, pocket, sack, seize
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To receive with hospitality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: greet, welcome
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verb
To receive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Qualifier: a thing given or imposed
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Synonyms: cop, get, acquire, accept, attain, come by, enlist, fang, gain, garner, get hold of, get one's hands on, land, lay hands on, lay hold of, obtain, procure, receive, secure, score, snag, take, win
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To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
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Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.
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Usage: Scotland, transitive
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verb
To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, intransitive, slang, transitive
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noun
hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
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Broader terms: tooth
noun
canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
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Broader terms: canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid
noun
an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
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Broader terms: extremity, appendage, member
Narrower terms: toxicognath
noun
a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Bantu, Bantoid language
History
The county sense is from Mandarin 房 (Fáng). The surname sense could be from Mandarin 方 (Fāng), 房 (Fáng), 芳 (Fāng), 仿 (Fǎng) or 放 (Fǎng).
From clipping of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below.
From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh2ḱ- (“to attach”). Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).
From Middle English fangen, fongen, from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh2ḱ- (“to attach”). Cognate with North Frisian fo, fu, füünj (“to get, obtain, receive”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen, fahen (“to catch”), Low German fangen (“to catch”), Luxembourgish fänken (“to catch”), Faroese fá, fáa (“to get; to catch”), Icelandic fá (“to get, receive”), Danish, Norwegian, Swedish få (“to get, receive”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).
The Macquarie Dictionary and the Australian National Dictionary Centre derive it from the name of Juan Fangio, Argentinian racing driver.
Across languages
102 source translations are retained for this English entry.
