What's the difference between fang and tang?

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.

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.