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Tang Dynasty, the imperial dynasty of China which reigned from 618 to 907.
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Later Tang, the Turkic dynasty of China which lasted from 923 to 936.
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Southern Tang. A kingdom in China which existed between 937 and 975.
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Any of a number of places in China.
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Any of a number of places in China.
A county of Baoding, Hebei, China.
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A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
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A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
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A Chinese surname from Teochew.
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A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
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Any of a number of places, including a village in Iran and a village in Afghanistan.
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A gewog of Bumthang District, Bhutan.
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noun
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
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Synonyms: bite, piquancy, spiciness, twang, zing
Antonyms: blandness, dullness
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A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
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Synonyms: twang
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A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
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Usage: figuratively
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A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
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Synonyms: fang
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A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
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noun
A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
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A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
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Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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A shuffleboard paddle.
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Topics: games
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Obsolete form of tongue.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
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knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
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Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
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The vagina or vulva.
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Usage: countable, vulgar
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Sexual intercourse with a woman
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Usage: uncountable, vulgar
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Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: surgeonfish
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To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
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Usage: dated
Topics: agriculture, beekeeping, business, lifestyle
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verb
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
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noun
any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
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Synonyms: sea tangle
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Broader terms: kelp
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any of various coarse seaweeds
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Synonyms: sea tang
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Broader terms: seaweed
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brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
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Synonyms: serrated wrack, Fucus serratus
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Broader terms: brown algae
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a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
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Synonyms: bladderwrack, black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus
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Broader terms: rockweed
noun
a tart spicy quality
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Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tanginess, zest
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Broader terms: spiciness, spice, spicery
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the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
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Synonyms: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip
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Broader terms: taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
Narrower terms: lemon, vanilla
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the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
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Synonyms: Tang dynasty
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Broader terms: dynasty
History
Borrowed from Mandarin 唐 (Táng).
Borrowed from Mandarin 湯 /汤 (Tāng).
Borrowed from Cantonese 滕 (tang4).
Borrowed from Cantonese 鄧 /邓 (dang6).
Borrowed from Teochew 陳 /陈 (dang5).
Borrowed from Hokkien 董 (táng).
Borrowed from Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow, tight”).
Borrowed from Dzongkha སྟང (stang).
From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Middle Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).
Imitative
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang
Clipping of poontang.
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Across languages
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
