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Strong taste or odor
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tang
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Tāng is a Chinese surname . It is 72nd surname in the Hundred Family Surnames or Baijiaxing of the Song Dynasty and 101st in modern popularity. The Tang family name comes from various people of the Shang Dynasty and some nomadic Chinese people . Tang is ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tang \Tang\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Twang . This word has become confused with tang tatse, flavor.] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Usage examples of tang.
Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.
Obviously, therefore, there must have been some explanation for the absence of tanged adzes from Western Polynesia other than that random voyages did not occur.
Apparently handfuls of migrants from Eastern Polynesia failed to establish the tanging of adzes among the conservative Western Polynesians.
A number of archaeologists have concluded that the tanging of adzes was brought to Polynesia by migrants from the west, although tanging is not typical of Western Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian adzes.
Perhaps the best view of all, however, is that after the early settlers of Eastern Polynesia were released from the conservative influence of Western Polynesian technology, they tanged some of their adzes and made other innovations in their artifacts.
She would probably have been surprised if Father Damon had told her that she was in this following a great example, and there might have been a tang of agnostic bitterness in her reply.
Laurel poked at her sea bass and thought longingly of bluepoint crabs and the colors of the Gulf sky at sunset, the sound of the sea and gulls, the tang of salt air.
When bruised and applied by way of a poultice to scrofulous swellings and glandular tumours, the Sea Tang has been found very valuable.
Justen dipped his bread into the thick sauce, letting the spicy warmth, the mixed tang of rosemary and citril and bertil, ease down his throat.
He could taste it on the tip of his tongue, the cuprous tang of blood and death and misery.
It was as if, by some act of retrospective gustation possible to the initiate, he was recalling the tang of that bottle to his palate.
There were wheeled vehicles that whined softly and left a tang of ozone behind, and pedal-powered carts like jinrikishas, and even a few draft animals that resembled small oxen.
Tangs would have made Lianne laugh, but the look in Kyles unwavering eyes took the humor right out of the situation.
The legger meat was like wild rabbit, though it was sweeter and had an unidentifiable tang.
Tang emperor who had lychee fruit imported daily to please his favorite concubine, Feizi.