(v. t.) To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
(v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.
(n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
(n.) Quality of tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
(2) This struck a loud, clanging chord with a disenchanted British public – half of whom heard the speech – and 93% of those approved of its message, which when boiled down was just an appeal for greater individual effort to win the war.
(3) Outside the tax ministry, drum-banging, bell-clanging protesters from the Anti-Raider League of Entrepreneurs, an anti-corruption group, alleged that crooked officials from the previous administration had merely been shuffled around.
(4) Over in Green Bay, though, Mason Crosby just clanged a long one off the right-hand upright.
(5) Fred VanVleet's three-pointer for the win just clanged out, ending their unbeaten season in the most painful manner possible at 35-1.
(6) As the tumbleweed rolled in and out of shot … somewhere in the distance a forlorn sounding church bell clanged.
(7) 8.25pm BST The last lap The bell clangs to herald the ultimate lap of the 100th Tour de France.
(8) "You'd almost see sparks and hear anvils clanging."
(9) Perhaps surprisingly, The Clanging of the Swords IV is the work of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), the extremist jihadist group that has led the insurgency against the authoritarian Iraqi government in recent weeks, and which runs parts of northern Syria.
(10) There was this terrible clang of falling steel and then me, drenched in the blood of my two children.
(11) The clang of an approaching train's warning to pedestrians to get off the open tracks has become part of the city's soundtrack, along with the constant honking of car horns, the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, the occasional peal of church bells and the Friday afternoon siren that marks the start of the Jewish sabbath.
(12) This shameful betrayal of humanity in the face of mass suffering must stop Another detainee recounts details of the “welcome party” – the terrifying initiation ceremony that awaited new arrivals, fresh off one of the “meat fridge” trucks used to transport prisoners, clueless to their whereabouts until the doors clanged open.
(13) Mannone races out of his area to clang the ball into the stand.
(14) A phrase like "Catholic child" or "Muslim child" should clang furious bells of protest in the mind, just as we flinch when we hear "one man one vote".
(15) There's no jarring clang of citrus heavyweights here: they really do chime.
(16) That great steel and aluminium beast, the Land Rover Defender, and its ancestors have been clanging and clunking their way off the production line at Solihull since 1948.
(17) The towering Scot who plays Sandor "the Hound" Clegane – foremost sword-swinging badass in a series not lacking on that front – is in LA for a Game Of Thrones premiere and goblet-clanging celebratory shindig, along with 23 other stars from the show.
(18) The people feel angry towards the government,” he said, speaking in a small wooden office as he marked pupils’ report books and a school bell clanged outside.
(19) We haven't even switched the Dictaphone on when the anecdotes start tumbling out, the biggest names clanging to the floor as they go.
(20) Yet this regressive goal is accompanied by a hypermodern propaganda machine that sees Isis's sadistic attacks promoted by a slick social media operation, a specially designed app – and well-made videos like The Clanging of the Swords IV.
Tang
Definition:
(n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
(n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
(n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
(n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
(n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
(n.) The tongue of a buckle.
(n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
(v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
(v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been postulated that mammalian aspartic proteases, which contain two structurally homologous lobes, are derived in evolution from a homodimer enzyme by gene duplication and fusion (Tang, J., James, M. N. G., Hsu, I.-N., Jenkins, J.
(2) But the Wu-Tang leader went on to speak about it anyhow: “[The album has] been handed over to an auction house, and they plan on doing something,” he said.
(3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
(4) Ins(1,3,4)P3 was dephosphorylated to two InsP2 (inositol bisphosphate) isomers, one of which is Ins(3,4)P2 [Shears, Parry, Tang, Irvine, Michell & Kirk (1987) Biochem.
(5) Wu-Tang Clan have already started taking pre-orders for A Better Tomorrow – which should not be confused with their "single-sale collector's item" Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and have released a new single, Keep Watch .
(6) R u ok kumamon?” “Are Kumamon and his friends safe?” wondered Eric Tang, a college student.
(7) Eric Tang, 21, a student at Open University of Hong Kong, said he was turned away this month while trying to shop with his girlfriend in Shenzhen.
(8) The Wu-Tang Clan's last album, 8 Diagrams , was released in 2007.
(9) Tang is a Shanghai businesswoman in her 30s and began to blog on opera in 2005.
(10) A region common to all the active fragments (amino acid residues 97-178) is 70% homologous with the corresponding region from a second member of the lipocortin family which recently was cloned (Huang, K-S., Wallner, B.P., Mattaliano, R.J., Tizard, R., Burne, C., Frey, A., Hession, C., McGray, P., Sinclair, L.K., Chow, E.P., Browning, J.L., Ramachandran, K.L., Tang, J., Smart, J.E., and Pepinsky, R.B.
(11) Tang responded that they were not the only African country with a bad reputation.
(12) & Fischbach, G. D. (1989) Neuron 3, 209-218; Tang, C.-M., Dichter, M. & Morad, M. (1989) Science 243, 1474-1477] that receptor desensitization governs the strength of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain.
(13) These data suggest that Wen-Jing-Tang induces LH release from the pituitary through hypothalamic LH-RH.
(14) Relatively high levels of TNF activity were noted in the groups given Angelica radix, Bupleuri radix, Cnidii rhizoma, or Cinnamomum cortex, very low activities in the groups given Xiao-chai-hu-tang, Zhu-ling-tang, or Krestin, and no TNF activities in the groups given Polyporus or Hoelen.
(15) In this paper, the long-term effects of the ancient Chinese formula of San-Huang-Hsieh-Hsin-Tang on patients with essential hypertension were reported.
(16) Solutions of methadone were prepared in (1) orange-flavored Tang, (2) grape-flavored Kool-Aid, (3) apple juice, (4) grape-flavored Crystal Light, and (5) grape-flavored Crystal Light plus 0.1% sodium benzoate.
(17) Raekwon has rejoined the Wu-Tang Clan, performing with his hip-hop compatriots on The Daily Show.
(18) Our previous studies on carbohydrate structures of purified porcine spleen cathepsin B indicated that there are two cathepsin B isozymes, each containing a different carbohydrate (Takahashi, T., Schmidt, P.G., and Tang, J.
(19) The city's Communist Party chief Tang Jun and mayor Li Wancai attempted to mollify the crowd with a promise to move the polluting project out of the city," according to the Xinhua news agency.
(20) If the city wall was largely executed as planned, Tange’s more ambitious “city gate” was a failure from the start.