(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.
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.