Meaning of Fang | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
   Scotland, dialectal
2. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
3. Four large technology companies, or (metonymically) their stock: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
4. A people of western Africa.
   plural, plural-only
5. The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
6. A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
7. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
8. A long pointed tooth in snakes, for injecting venom.
9. A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.
10. A surname from Mandarin
11. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
12. Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.
13. A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
14. Catches on which the coal mining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.
    in-plural, rare
15. The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
16. The valve of a pump box.

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Examples

“The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.”

“Now take out your Indian Tuberoſes, parting the Off-ſets (but with care, leſt you break their fangs) then pot them in natural (not forc'd) Earth; [...] the protuberant fangs of the Yuca are to be treated like the Tuberoſes.”

“Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.”

“FANG COUNTY HYDROELECTRICITY--This year the people in Fang County have developed 135 small hydroelectric power stations with a total installed[...]”

“After parting with his brothers, Wang Yü-yang journeyed on the southwest road and came to a small town nestled in the rural region of Fang County.”

““Its speed was very fast, but it was walking, not running,” Yuan said. As the creature ranged across a mountain in Fang county, bordering the Shennongjia Forestry District, “it walked faster than a human ran”.”

“Hubei Sanxin Biotechnology Co., LTD, located in Fang County, Shiyan City, has developed a series of traditional Chinese medicine [from] Polygonum Cuspidatum, including "yellow bud stem" vegetables, resveratrol extract, emodin extract, and crude Polygonum cuspidatum extract and so on.”

“Now, the Fang County government is trying “incentives,” according to a statement posted Saturday on its website. People who report their own fevers will receive 1,000 renminbi, the equivalent of $143 — a few days’ salary for the average Hubei resident.”

“The FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) today are leading the charge, and many of them boast P/Es in the hundreds!”

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