tong

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɒŋ/    美 /tɔŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. plural
    — […] 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?
  2. 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.
  3. Obsolete spelling of tongue. alt-of,obsolete
    — Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
  4. A Chinese secret society or gang.
动词 v.
  1. To use tongs. intransitive
  2. To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. transitive

词形变化

tongs plural tongs present,singular,third-person tonging participle,present tonged participle,past tonged past tongs plural tongs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
tong war
相关词
tongs triad yakuza

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Cantonese 堂 (tong⁴).
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