(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.
Pang
Definition:
(n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
(v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Reading win promotion in the Championship play-off final against Swansea City on Monday – and, to be fair, even if they don't – a lot of managers will probably be feeling a pang of regret.
(2) Administration of furosemide induced marked increases in PRA, Ang I-ir, PAng II-ir and CSF Ang II-ir, however, neither plasma nor CSF angiotensinogen was changed.
(3) Elevation of sodium intake suppressed pANG II to minimal levels in nonpregnant sheep, but to only 25% of the control level in pregnant sheep.
(4) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(5) I look around and everyone else seems to have invited Barbie into their children's toy chests without a pang of guilt.
(6) in the accompanying paper (L. T. Haber, P. P. Pang, D. I. Sobell, J.
(7) The influence of nifedipine treatment on plasma (PV) and extracellular fluid volume (ECV), the ratio of plasma volume to interstitial fluid volume (PV:IF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), renal clearances of Na+ and K+, plasma concentrations of renin (PRC), angiotensin II (pANG II), aldosterone (pAldo), adrenaline (PA) and noradrenaline (PNA) were studied in 18 consecutive patients with essential hypertension.
(8) A disgraceful display in any civilized society to be sure, but for fight fans of a certain vintage it was hard to not feel a pang of nostalgia.
(9) In spite of significant suppression of PRA and PAng I-ir, there were no significant changes in either plasma or CSF angiotensinogen.
(10) Immunological data revealed that the 42- and 43-kDa proteins were related to alpha-subunits of the Gq class recently purified from brain (Pang, I.-H., and Sternweis, P. C. (1990) J. Biol.
(11) This difference was more evident for the Yao Pang locus.
(12) "I'd be fibbing if I said I didn't have a pang for that – the amazing five days [of coalition talks that followed the election] and deals stuck together and all the rest of it.
(13) Across the contralateral kidney the veno-arterial differences in PRC and pANG II were both close to zero, while negative differences in pANG II indicated the removal of ANG II.
(14) He has been burdened with them for a decade and more, first satisfying the hunger pangs wrought by 77 years of waiting for someone to emulate Fred Perry, then leading this team here to smash more Perry history and win the Cup for Great Britain for the first time since 1936.
(15) Also, the inverse relationship of sodium intake and pANG II was blunted, suggesting a reduced role for ANG II in the maintenance of renal function during pregnancy.
(16) Previous studies in the once-through perfused rat liver preparation have shown that the techniques of normal and retrograde delivery of substrate and computer simulation of enzyme distributions along the sinusoidal flow path in liver were useful in delineating the relative distributions of sulfation and glucuronidation activities for harmol metabolism (Pang et al., J. Pharmacol.
(17) said Pang Jinhua, mother-in-law of lawyer Teng Biao, who has been missing since mid-February.
(18) Rather the zonal localization of metabolizing activities [a periportal sulfation, evenly distributed glucuronidation, and perivenous hydroxylation system (Xu and Pang, J. Pharmacokinet.
(19) River flows had however been boosted temporarily – the Pang in Berkshire, which had been completely dry, was flowing again thanks to runoffs from drenched fields.
(20) Veno-arterial differences in pANG I across the affected kidney in patients with lateralization of the renin secretion indicated release of angiotensin I (ANG I) in considerable amounts.