(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.
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.