tang – English noun declension

English noun forms of tang

Noun: tang
Singulartang
Pluraltangs

Sample Sentences

  • a tang of citrus
  • The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath. [1904, O. Henry, The Missing Chord:]
  • To make yogurt, milk or cream is pasteurized and homogenized, then Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophiles bacteria are added to convert the lactose into lactic acid. This is what thickens it, and gives it the distinct tang. [2022 July 18, “Food for Thought: A Short History of Yogurt”, in BC Dairy:]
  • a tang of cellar
  • Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  • a tang of pedantry
  • Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
  • a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics [1806, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Dr. Priestley”, in The Edinburgh Review:]
  • What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears? [1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, At Sunset Time:]
  • (archaic)
  • slip the cable over the tang
  • "And inside the joints, these so-called O-rings are supposed to expand to make a seal—is that right?" ¶ "Yes, sir. In static conditions they should be in direct contact with the tang and clevis and squeezed twenty-thousandths of an inch." [1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →OCLC, page 150:]
  • full-tang
  • A full-tang knife is strongest against handle breakage, but partial-tang knives are common because of a combination of facts: they are inexpensive, and in some applications any manner of use that would exceed the handle's limit is not an appropriate manner of use.
  • I spent the evening collecting the abandoned nests of birds from a rock face a half league distant, and that night I struck fire from the tang of Terminus Est and boiled the coarse meal (which took a long time to cook, because of the altitude) and ate it. [1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter 27, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 200:]
  • The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang[…] [1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IV, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:]
  • 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
  • Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?

Etymology

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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'tange', Old Norse Nouns 'tangi', Old Norse Nouns 'tunga'.

Verbs referencing "tang"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tange.