Definition of "tang" in İngilizce

noun

1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.

   • a tang of citrus

2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.

   • a tang of cellar
   • Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

3. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.

   • a tang of pedantry

4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

   • slip the cable over the tang

5. (games) A shuffleboard paddle.

6. Obsolete form of tongue.

   • 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?

7. (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.

noun

1. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.

verb

1. (dated, beekeeping) 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.

2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.

noun

1. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)

noun

1. (countable, vulgar slang) The vagina or vulva.

2. (uncountable, vulgar slang) Sexual intercourse with a woman

noun

1. (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.