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Definition: STANG |
STANG1. Of Sting 2. Imp. of Sting. Intransitive verb1. To shoot with pain. Noun1. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. 2. A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. |
Date "STANG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stang To ride the stang. To be under petticoat government. At one time a man who ill-treated his wife was made to sit on a "stang" or pole hoisted on men's shoulders. On this uneasy conveyance the "stanger" was carried in procession amidst the hootings and jeerings of his neighbours. (Saxon, staéng, a pole.) (See Skimmington .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STANG |
| Specialty definitions using "STANG": Church of the SubGenius. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "STANG" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (pole, rod), Manx (dowel, gudgeon, pillory, stock), Norwegian (pole, rod), Scottish (a ditch, sting). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STANG" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stang | Last name | 1,000 | 15,332 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "STANG": Stang ball ♦ To ride the stang. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
stang | 45 | net.com stang | 3 |
net stang | 23 | babe stang | 3 |
jag stang | 22 | john stang | 3 |
arnold stang | 12 | magazine stang | 3 |
pachulski stang | 11 | silje stang | 3 |
fender jag stang | 10 | newdow stang | 2 |
stang part | 9 | pat stang | 2 |
bishop stang high school | 9 | dfw stang | 2 |
alan stang | 8 | girl stang | 2 |
create stang | 6 | jag sale stang | 2 |
bishop stang | 6 | pachulski stang ziehl | 2 |
parts.com stang | 4 | guitar jag stang | 2 |
it stang | 4 | pic stang | 2 |
1997 stang | 4 | crazy stang | 2 |
ivan stang | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STANG": stanged, stanging, stangs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "STANG": mustang. (additional references) | |
Words containing "STANG": mustangs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STANG" (pronounced sta"ng) |
| 3 | -t a" ng | tang. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: angst, gnats, tangs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ants, gast, gats, gnat, nags, sang, snag, stag, tags, tang, tans. | |
-2 letters: ant, gan, gas, gat, nag, sag, sat, tag, tan, tas. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, as, at, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agents, angsts, gainst, giants, grants, satang, sating, stangs, strang, tangos, tongas, twangs. | |
+2 letters: actings, against, agnates, agonist, amongst, antings, antisag, argents, basting, casting, easting, eatings, fasting, gannets, garnets, gasting, gastrin, gelants, gitanos, gratins, gymnast, hasting, ingates, ingesta, lasting, magnets, masting, matings, mustang, naughts, negates, nougats, onstage, outsang, pasting, ratings, salting, satangs, seating, skating, slating, staging, staking, staling, stanged, staning, staring, stating, staving, staying, stengah, strange, stygian, takings, tangles, tasking, tasting, tawsing, teasing, wasting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 41 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - .- -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T A N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0041 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5354354841 |
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