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Fang


Definition:

  • (a.) To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
  • (a.) To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
  • (v. t.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
  • (v. t.) Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
  • (v. t.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
  • (v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
  • (v. t.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
  • (v. t.) The valve of a pump box.
  • (v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (2) This case demonstrates the hazard of even preserved snake heads and fangs.
  • (3) The first classification of epilepsy, probably by Cao Yuan Fang in A.D. 610, listed five types of epilepsy: "Yang Dian," "Yin Dian," "Feng (Wind) Dian," "Shih (Wet) Dian," and "Lao (Labor) Dian."
  • (4) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (5) Specific antisera against FanG and against FanH were prepared by immunization with hybrid Cro-LacZ-FanG and Cro-LacZ-FanH proteins, respectively.
  • (6) Fang's visit to Washington was heralded with a rare full military honours ceremony on the Pentagon's parade field, complete with a US navy band, formations of troops from all of the services and a 19-gun salute.
  • (7) In Washington the visiting Chinese army chief, General Fang Fenghui, reacted to the situation by accusing the US of stoking tensions in the region .
  • (8) The monsters in Doctor Sleep are promisingly creepy: polyester-clad senior citizens who turn out to be child-torturing paranormals with fangs beneath their dentures.
  • (9) According to local reports , Fang Binxing attempted to display a South Korea website, which he said showed the views of South Koreans attempting to build similar infrastructure to China’s firewall, but was blocked by said censorship system.
  • (10) "Now that we know each other, you can call me Fang Fang," she said.
  • (11) Proper first aid consists of a proximal mildly constricting tourniquet, superficial incision at fang marks, and constant suction.
  • (12) The effect of mitotane to Fang-8 cells was a reversible one.
  • (13) When we meet he has, just the week before, finished directing The Family Fang , starring himself and Nicole Kidman.
  • (14) That their parties have nevertheless chosen them to confront Griffin suggests that they, like celebrity broadcasters, think it is enough to accuse the BNP leader of racism for him to show his fangs to the cameras.
  • (15) Among traditional Fang-chi plants only Sinomeniumacutum has been demonstrated to contain the alkaloid sinomenine, which is now known to be effective in neuralgia and rheumatic diseases.
  • (16) The pulp of the fangs of Viperidae shows a poor collagen and fibroblast content and a high developed vascular system.
  • (17) The effect of the drug was specific to Fang-8 cells because the same treatment produced little or no toxicity on lines of rat pituitary GH3 cells and human skin fibrocytes.
  • (18) Fang then had to resort to setting up a virtual private network (VPN) to circumvent the censorship, in full view of the lecture attendees, to display the site.
  • (19) "Foreigners must get police permission to stay at guesthouses below three stars," Miss Fang said.
  • (20) ichangensis Y. Y. Fang et C. Z. Zheng, I. kirilowii Maxim.

Gang


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go; to walk.
  • (v. i.) A going; a course.
  • (v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
  • (v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.
  • (v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.
  • (v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (2) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
  • (3) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
  • (4) A focus on preventing children from joining gangs in the first place, as well as on offering gang members the access to education and employment that they have been lacking is more likely to be effective.
  • (5) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
  • (6) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
  • (7) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (9) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
  • (10) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
  • (11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
  • (12) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
  • (13) Gang members were also involved in a handful of more serious incidents including the shooting incident in Birmingham.
  • (14) "We hope all relevant parties will do that which benefits peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, hope all sides will respond calmly and avoid exacerbating the situation," ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
  • (15) "These are delicate times and we take a positive role," Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, told the Guardian today.
  • (16) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
  • (17) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
  • (18) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
  • (19) The last big one was only in August this year, when seven young people were beaten up by a gang of 40 Nazis."
  • (20) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.

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