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tong

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  • Royaume-Uni//tɒŋ//
  • États-Unis//tɔŋ//
  • //tɑŋ//

An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.

nom

  1. 1

    An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.

    […] these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?

Étymologie

From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”).

verbe

  1. 1

    To use tongs.

  2. 2

    To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

nom

  1. 1

    A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.

    An Ordinance to provide for the termination of the Block Crown Lease of Cheung Chau granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong and for sub-lessees under the Block Crown Lease to hold directly from the Crown.

  2. 2

    A Chinese secret society or gang.

Étymologie

From Cantonese 堂 (tong⁴).

nom

  1. 1

    Variante de tongueobsolèteObsolete spelling of tongue.

Formes

pluriel
tongs
passé
tonged
participe passé
tonged
participe présent
tonging
3ᵉ personne du singulier
tongs
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).