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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prong
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If the ribber is on full pitch these prongs move in slightly between the ribber sinker posts as you wind the handle.
▪ Some acrylic easels are rigid with prongs or lips to hold the object.
▪ The prongs had rounded edges that fit into finely finished grooves.
▪ The third prong was at once the simplest and the most sweeping.
▪ This one had a prong like a dagger in its head.
▪ This was the west side of the house, which was built in the shape of an E without the middle prong.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prong

Prong \Prong\, n. [Cf. D. prangen to pinch, press, LG. prange a stick, or W. procio to thrust, E. prowl, pang.]

  1. A sharp-pointed instrument.

    Prick it on a prong of iron.
    --Sandys.

  2. The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.

  3. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A sharp projection, as of an antler.

    2. The fang of a tooth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prong

early 15c., prange "pointed instrument;" mid-15c., pronge "pain," from Anglo-Latin pronga "prong, pointed tool," of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle Low German prange "stick, restraining device," prangen "to press, pinch." See also prod, which might be related. Prong-horned antelope is from 1815 (short form pronghorn attested from 1826).

Wiktionary
prong

n. 1 A thin, pointed, projecting part. 2 A branch; a fork. vb. to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong

WordNet
prong

n. a pointed projection

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Prong (band)

Prong is an American heavy metal band formed in 1986. Prong had two independent releases, Primitive Origins and Force Fed. The albums attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the trio in 1989. The group disbanded in 1997 after the Rude Awakening tour, but reformed in 2000. To date, they have released eight studio albums, one live album, four EPs, one DVD and one remix album. A pioneer of the urban metal scene, Prong is fronted by Tommy Victor. Korn's Jonathan Davis, Demon Hunter's Ryan Clark, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor all cite Prong as an influence to their musical style.

Prong (company)

Prong is an iPhone battery case company based in New York City, primarily manufacturing accessories for electronic devices with their patented AC charging design. Prong's patented design allows users to plug their cases directly into an outlet.

Usage examples of "prong".

Removal of the hair-pin was effected by first inserting within the meatus a Gruber speculum, encircling the unbroken projecting prong, and then raising the end of the broken one with a long-shanked aural hook, when the hair-pin was readily withdrawn.

The top prongs are all going gay, or opting for pornographic berk women.

The folds of tarred cords wrapped around the long hull of the pronged submarine.

AAGE was at the controls, as their pronged craft moved slowly away from the stairs of the cavern of light.

Denning-watched the pronged end rise an inch, fall back and rise again.

Then slowly, as if supported by invisible thread, the fork rose some three feet above the plate, circled twice, then steadied the pronged end pointing straight at his face.

He picked up his pronged staff from where he had rested it against the doorpost and turned back, all his movements stiff and weary.

Rudy left him there, walking slowly back along his own invisible tracks, the double points of his pronged staff winking in the desert starlight.

The steel points of his pronged staff winked faintly in the wan afternoon light.

Renweth, but its pronged, razor-edged crescent could serve as a weapon as well.

A khatvanga consists of a long wand surmounted by the vase of life, a freshly severed head, a decomposing head, a skull and a pronged thunderbolt symbol.

Below millions of tons of brine, this condensed substance of a tribe of lightning elementals burst through the links of chain, through prongs the size of masts, out into the water in a bolt of massively potent energy that blazed white light and spasmed instantly into the deeps of the sinkhole, bleaching and destroying what rude life it passed, until it lanced the membrane between dimensions, many miles down.

The steel prongs caught on the lip of the pallet, which rose a couple of feet into the air before crashing down with a sharp, splintening crack.

Pilot was back at the binnacle and Torps over beside his pronged sight.

The umlaut made two beady red eyes, the bottom prong of the star made a sharp muzzle, the top prongs a pair of horns, and the two side prongs a pair of goatlike ears.