What is "tango"

Tango \Tan"go\ (t[a^][ng]"g[=o]; Sp. t[aum][ng]"g[=o]), n.; pl. Tangos (-g[=o]z). [Sp., a certain dance.]

1. A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango.

2. Any of various popular forms derived from this.

3. a musical tune appropriate for this dance.

syncopated ballroom dance, 1913 (the year it became a rage in Britain and America), from Argentine Spanish tango, originally the name of an African-American drum dance, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu "to dance"). Phrase it takes two to tango was a song title from 1952. As a verb from 1913. Related: Tangoed.\n\nIt is hardly a year ago since the Tango reached this country from South America by way of Paris. It was at first no more than a music-hall freak. But some of those mysterious people who inspire new social fashions were attracted by its sinuous movements and the strange backward kick, and this year it made its way into private houses as well as public ball rooms. [The Living Age, Dec. 13, 1913] \n

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\n"I need not describe the various horrors of American and South American negroid origin. I would only ask hostesses to let one know what houses to avoid by indicating in some way on their invitation cards whether the 'turkey-trot,' the 'Boston' (the beginner of the evil), and the 'tango' will be permitted."

[quoted in "Current Opinion," October 1913, as from a letter to the London Times]

n. 1 A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango. 2 A piece of music suited to such a dance. 3 The letter ''T'' in the ICAO spelling alphabet. 4 (context slang English) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet. 5 A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine vb. 1 To dance the tango. 2 (cx slang intransitive English) To mingle or interact (with each other).

1. n. a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin

2. music written in duple time for dancing the tango

v. dance a tango

Tango is a social dance form including Argentine, Uruguayan, and international ballroom tango.

Tango may also refer to:

• Argentine tango, a social dance form, the original form of tango
• Tango music, a genre of music that originated in Argentina and Uruguay
• Tango (flamenco), a song-form or instrumental-form of flamenco music
• Maxixe (dance), also known as "Brazilian tango"

TANGO may also refer to:

• The letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet
  • and therefore, soldiers may use "Tango" as their slang for an enemy (T)arget
• A variety of lettuce (Lactuca sativa var tango)

Tango is a 1998 Argentine- Spanish musical drama tango film written and directed by Carlos Saura and starring Miguel Ángel Solá and Mía Maestro. It was photographed by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

Tango is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Stravinsky's Tango (1940) arranged 1953 by the composer. The premiere took place June 10, 1982, as part of City Ballet's Stravinsky Centennial Celebration at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.

Tango is the fourth album by singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, and her first on High Street Records. Produced by Larkin and Will Ackerman in 1991 and distributed by High Street, it contained the following songs:

Tango is a studio album released by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias on November 19, 1996. This album became his first number-one set on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and the recipient of a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.

Julio went on to win a World Music Award for Tango in the summer of 1996 when he was up against Luis Miguel and son Enrique.

Tango is a comics anthology published in |Melbourne, Australia by Cardigan Comics. As of December 2009, there have been nine issues of Tango, published intermittently since 1997, and an additional compilation The Tango Collection, published in 2009 by Allen & Unwin.

The TANGO control system is a free open source device-oriented controls toolkit for controlling any kind of hardware or software and building SCADA systems. It is used for controlling synchrotrons, lasers, physics experiments in over 20 sites. It is being actively developed by a consortium of research institutes.

TANGO is a distributed control system. It runs on a single machine as well as hundreds of machines. TANGO uses two network protocols - the omniorb implementation of CORBA and Zeromq. The basic communication model is the client-server model. Communication between clients and servers can be synchronous, asynchronous or event driven. CORBA is used for synchronous and asynchronous communication and Zeromq is used for event-driven communication (since version 8 of TANGO).

TANGO is based on the concept of Devices. Devices implement object oriented and service oriented approaches to software architecture. The Device model in TANGO implements commands/methods, attributes / data fields and properties for configuring Devices. In TANGO all control objects are Devices.

Tango is a soft drink primarily sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Malta, first launched by Corona in 1950 the name tango came from Ivan Colman saying it had a "tang". Corona were bought by the Beecham Group in 1958, and Corona Soft Drinks were bought by Britvic in 1987. In Scandinavia the drink is distributed by SMX Drinks AB.

Originally, Tango was the name of the orange flavour in a range of different flavoured drinks, that each had their own name. In the 1990s, long after the other products in the range had been discontinued, the Tango brand was expanded into other flavours, including apple, lemon, cherry, blackcurrant, and later "Fruit Fling". , the flavours available in the United Kingdom include orange, apple, blackcurrant, cherry and citrus, in addition to flavours of the slushpuppy-style "Tango Ice Blast" range.

Tango is well known in the United Kingdom for their advertisements, mostly those aired on television in the 1990s with the aid of advertising agency Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury.

In flamenco a tango is one of the flamenco palos closely related in form and feeling to the rumba flamenca. It is often performed as a finale to a flamenco tiento. Its compás and llamada are the same as that of the farruca and share the farruca's lively nature. However, the tango is normally performed in the A Phrygian mode. In some English sources the flamenco tango is written with an -s; "the tangos is..."

The flamenco tango is distinct from the flamenco rumba primarily through the guitar playing. In Rumba the guitar flows more freely, whereas in Tangos the accents on beats 2, 3 & 4 are marked clearly with heavy strumming.

Tangos is only vaguely related to Argentine tango, and objectively they only share compás binario or double stroke rhythm. The fact that Argentine tango is one of the first couple dances in America has led historians to believe that both could be based in a minuet-style European dance, therefore sharing a common ancestor, while those who compare the present day forms do not see them as related.

The Tangos, also known as Armoured Troop Carriers (ATC), were LCM-6 landing crafts modified for riverine patrol missions. They were used by the Mobile Riverine Force of the United States Army in the Vietnam War. The troops of the 9th Infantry Division used them more than other groups in the earlier parts of the war, but as they proved themselves they were deployed elsewhere. They were also used by South Vietnamese troops.

Many were equipped with helicopter decks. They could be told from the LCM-6 by their distinctive bow ramp. They also had an armoured superstructure to protect from rockets. The ATC, the most common variant, carried four M1919 Browning machine guns, two Mk 16 20 mm cannons, and one Mk 19 grenade launcher. Some carried flamethrowers. These were known as "Zippos". The "Monitor" was another version, which was used as a floating tank. In addition to the ATC’s armament, it also carried an 81 mm mortar and a 105 mm howitzer. There was also a command and communications boat, known as the "Charlie". Many tangos were also converted into refueling boats.

The ATC weighed 66 tons, and 56.5-foot (17.2 m) long. They had a crew of 7. They had a top speed of 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph).

The Tango saw combat with the 113th Task Force of the Mobile Riverine Force in Operation Game Warden.

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The Tango is a light rail vehicle and tram made by Stadler Rail. It can be built as either a 100% high-floor or 70% low-floor articulated unit. It is in use in Bochum, Basel, Geneva and Lyon.

Tango is the first studio album by the American folk band Sonia & Disappear Fear, released on October 2, 2007 by Sonia's own Disappear Records label. The majority of the tracks are sung in Spanish with a few being sung in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Five of the tracks are translated versions of older songs: "Fallin'", "Be the One", "Sexual Telepathy", "Because We're Here" and "Millions of Rope".

Tango is a 1969 Bulgarian drama film directed by Vasil Mirchev. It was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.

Tango is a 1940 piece originally composed for piano by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It is one of Stravinsky's most recorded works for piano.

In Cook Islands mythology, Tango (Support) was the third child of the primordial mother goddess, Varima-te-takere. He was assigned to live at Enua-kura (The land of red parrot feathers). According to Mamae, Gill's informant, Tango was the progenitor of a skilled fishing family. That the six grandsons of Tango were good workers is shown in the native text. The enclosure (akeke) for fish mentioned in a chant has not been retained in the local culture of the people.

Tango is the third studio album from Serbian rock band Negative. The album was released in 2004 after Negative won the festival Beovizija and ended up 4th in the final selection of Serbia and Montenegro’s Eurovision Song Contest representative with the song "Zbunjena". Just like the title suggests, the album introduced a "softer", more romantic Negative than on previous two albums. It became very successful both in Serbia and other Yugoslav republics, although criticized for turning to City Records. Video for Tango became one of the most viewed in former Yugoslavia. It is Ivana Peters's favourite album.

Videos were shot for the songs "Zbunjena", "Tango" and "Pogled na nebo". Scheduled to be shot were the videos for "Jutro posle dodira" and "Carobni napitak", however, this didn't happen due to the pregnancy of the lead singer, Ivana Peters.

Tango SA, a Luxembourg subsidiary of the Belgian telco Belgacom Group, provides fixed and mobile voice services and DSL services in Luxembourg. It formerly operated services in Liechtenstein. As the second mobile operator in Luxembourg, the company markets its mobile services under the "Tango" brand.

Launched in 1998, Tango was the first company to offer UMTS in 2002. In 2005, Tango offered its customers ADSL and HSDPA services for the first time.

Originally operated by Tele2, Belgacom finalized the acquisition of this company in August 2008. Belgacom also acquired the fixed and mobile activities of Tele2 in Liechtenstein.

Since March 2009 Tango is partner of Vodafone.

Tango launched LTE in October 2012. At the end of 2013 Tango had 280.000 customers.

Tango is a third-party, cross platform messaging application software for smartphones developed by TangoME, Inc. in 2009. The app is free and is popular for offering video calls over 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi networks.

Tango has more than 200 million registered users as at March 2014 and, among Android devices, it is the 12th most downloaded app. It is rated by PCMag as "the simplest mobile chat application out there, with a good range of support."

Tango (formerly named Project Tango in-testing) is a technology platform developed and authored by Google that uses computer vision to enable mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to detect their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals. This allows application developers to create user experiences that include indoor navigation, 3D mapping, physical space measurement, environmental recognition, augmented reality, and windows into a virtual world.

The first product to emerge from ATAP's Skunkworks group, Tango was developed by a team led by computer scientist Johnny Lee, a core contributor to Microsoft's Kinect. In an interview in June 2015, Lee said, "We're developing the hardware and software technologies to help everything and everyone understand precisely where they are, anywhere."

Google has produced two devices to demonstrate the Tango technology: the discontinued Peanut phone and the Yellowstone 7-inch tablet. More than 3,000 of these devices had been sold as of June 2015, chiefly to researchers and software developers interested in building applications for the platform. In the summer of 2015, Qualcomm and Intel both announced that they are developing Tango reference devices as models for device manufacturers who use their mobile chipsets.

At CES, in January 2016, Google announced a partnership with Lenovo to release a consumer smartphone during the summer of 2016 to feature Tango technology marketed at consumers, noting a less than $500 price-point and a small form factor below 6.5 inches. At the same time, both companies also announced an application incubator to get applications developed to be on the device on launch.

At Lenovo Tech World 2016, Lenovo launched the world's first consumer phone based on Tango, as well as releasing it as "Tango".

Tango is a drama written by Polish writer, dramatist and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013). It was first published in the literary magazine Dialog (Dialogue) in 1964. Tango was staged for the first time in Bydgoszcz in 1965. The drama has been translated into English, Italian, Japanese, French, Danish, Hebrew, Czech, Slovenian, Dutch, Estonian, German, Spanish and others.

Tango is an amusement ride design produced by the Dutch company KMG introduced in 2002. Most carnivals require riders to be 54 inches (137 cm).

Tango is a 1993 French comedy film directed by Patrice Leconte.

Tango is a novel by English author Alan Judd published in 1989 by Hutchinson. Quentin Letts writing in The Daily Telegraph described it as "his funniest novel to date".

Tango is a 1936 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Marian Nixon, Chick Chandler and Marie Prevost. After her husband leaves her, a woman takes up a career as a tango dancer.