What's the difference between fang and lang?

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.

Lang


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Long.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
  • (2) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (3) We spent a lot of time there and would bar hop all around Camden, ending up at Marathon for a kebab as it was always the last place open.’ Photograph: Robert Lang Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is Loraine, when late one night we ended up at a friend’s house who had been given a lifesize medical skeleton.
  • (4) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (5) It was through Lange’s vision and determination, along with that of many others, that this became possible.
  • (6) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Lang , professor of food policy at London's City University, said there were deeper structural issues to global food market price rises that politicians were not taking seriously and which were hurting the poor disproportionately.
  • (7) Lang was scheduled to give evidence later on Thursday.
  • (8) An Arabic version of the 108 item Wolpe-Lang Fear Survey Schedule (FSS III) was administered to four Egyptian groups of undergraduates, in order to estimate test reliability.
  • (9) Some have speculated that it may be a clever trap because, if the children are liable for capital gains tax and are forced to sell their shares, the only person they can sell to is a lineal descendent of Lang Hancock – that is, Gina Rinehart.
  • (10) Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that insertion of 20 alpha-hydroxycholesterol into human erythrocyte membranes (10% of total membrane sterol) immobilized the lipid acyl chains to a degree equivalent to enriching total membrane cholesterol by 50% (Rooney, M.W., Lange, Y. and Kauffman, J.W.
  • (11) "It is mostly women who live in isolated and mountainous areas who are being trafficked across the border, because there is no information for us," said 18-year-old Lang, from the Tay ethnic minority, who walked across the border illegally and was sold to a Chinese family by a friend.
  • (12) The predicted sigma 2 polypeptides of the Lang and Dearing strains display 98 percent homology at the amino acid level.
  • (13) Dhu was seen and discharged in under an hour; the recorded diagnosis, from Dr Anne Lang, was of “behavioural gain”, although Lang told the court her actual diagnosis was musculoskeletal pain.
  • (14) We present a mother and child affected with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and raise the possibility of autosomal dominant inheritance.
  • (15) I accepted that she did have pain but my clinical impression was that she was a normal young lady,” Lang said, adding that her notes, which have been criticised as brief, reflected both the business of the emergency department that night and her believe that Dhu was generally well.
  • (16) Cornelia de Lange syndrome is a collection of congenital anomalies.
  • (17) I had absolutely no idea that she was as sick as she was.” Lang said she was told by police that Dhu had been fine when arrested, and that, “after she found out that she would have to spend time incarcerated there was a directly proportional increase with her pain and anxiety”.
  • (18) The "De Lange" curves measured in this way can be described by a first-order high-pass filter in combination with a fourth-order low-pass filter.
  • (19) Trudie Lang, professor of global health research at Oxford University, said it was important that the response from the research community was faster than with Ebola.
  • (20) The author then contrasts the approach described with positions taken by Langs, Gill and Sandler, and discusses why Freud's recommendations may have been neglected.

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