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  • English Word Tang Definition A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
  • English Word Tang Definition The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
  • English Word Tang Definition The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  • English Word Tang Definition The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
  • English Word Tang Definition The tongue of a buckle.
  • English Word Tang Definition A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
  • English Word Tang Definition To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
  • English Word Tang Definition To make a ringing sound; to ring.
  • English Word Tangalung Definition An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).
  • English Word Tanged Definition of Tang
  • English Word Tangence Definition Tangency.
  • English Word Tangency Definition The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
  • English Word Tangent Definition A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
  • English Word Tangent Definition Touching; touching at a single point
  • English Word Tangent Definition meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.
  • English Word Tangental Definition Tangential.
  • English Word Tangential Definition Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
  • English Word Tangentially Definition In the direction of a tangent.
  • English Word Tangerine Definition A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
  • English Word Tangfish Definition The common harbor seal.
  • English Word Tanghinia Definition The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
  • English Word Tangibility Definition The quality or state of being tangible.
  • English Word Tangible Definition Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
  • English Word Tangible Definition Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.
  • English Word Tanging Definition of Tang
  • English Word Tangle Definition To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
  • English Word Tangle Definition To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
  • English Word Tangle Definition To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
  • English Word Tangle Definition Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
  • English Word Tangle Definition A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.