Dictionary Entry
tang
tang is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
- 6noun
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- 7noun
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- 8noun
The tongue of a buckle.
- 9noun
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
- 11intransitive verb
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
- 12noun
any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
- 13noun
any of various coarse seaweeds
- 14noun
brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
- 15noun
a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
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- 16noun
a tart spicy quality
- 17noun
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- 18noun
the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
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