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Definition: VANG |
VANGNoun1. A rope to steady the peak of a gaff. |
Etymology: Vang \Vang\, noun. [from Dutch expression vangen to catch, seize. See Fang.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: VANG |
| Non-English Usage: "VANG" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (captivate, capture, catch, grapple). |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vang."
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Movie/TV Titles | Jonny Vang (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Chu Yang, NRCS, Soil Conservationist (left), Phen Vue (center), and Gha Vang (right), examine 35 acres of strawberries Vang is growing on the outskirts of Fresno, California.Credit: USDA. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | On some occasions, large religious gatherings have been allowed, such as the Catholic celebrations at La Vang. (references) |
Vietnam | Twenty or more Hmong Protestant leaders may still be imprisoned, including: Va Sinh Giay, Vang Sua Giang, Phang A Dong, Mua A Ho, Cu Van Long, and Sua Song Vu. An ethnic Hre church leader, Dinh Troi, was detained in Quang Ngai Province on the central coast in 1999, and it is believed he was still detained at year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | Vietnam | In July a festival gathering of up to 300,000 Hoa Hao in An Giang province took place with official permission, and in August an estimated 15,000 persons attended the Roman Catholic La Vang pilgrimage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VANG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "VANG" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "VANG" 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 |
| Vang | Last name | 12,000 | 1,000 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
vang | 35 |
general pao vang | 19 |
comp vang | 15 |
boom vang | 12 |
pao vang | 10 |
lora vang | 6 |
vang vieng | 5 |
ba nicole tran vang | 4 |
i valdres vang | 4 |
cafe di vang | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VANG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | Σχοινίο Πλοίου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csonkakötél. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angvay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "VANG": vangs, vanguard, vanguardism, vanguardisms, vanguardist, vanguardists, vanguards. (additional references) | |
Words containing "VANG": evangel, evangelic, evangelical, evangelically, evangelicals, evangelism, evangelisms, evangelist, evangelistic, evangelistically, evangelists, evangelization, evangelizations, evangelize, evangelized, evangelizes, evangelizing, evangels, televangelism, televangelisms, televangelist, televangelists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VANG" (pronounced va"ng) |
| 2 | -a" ng | bang, Chang, clang, Dang, Fang, gang, hang, harangue, Lang, Liang, pang, rang, sang, slang, spang, sprang, stang, Strang, tang, whang, Yang. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-v" | |
-1 letter: gan, nag, van. | |
-2 letters: ag, an, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-v" | |
+1 letter: ganev, vangs, vegan. | |
+2 letters: avenge, caving, ganevs, geneva, graven, having, laving, paving, raving, saving, vagina, vegans, waving. | |
+3 letters: avenged, avenger, avenges, avowing, braving, calving, carving, cavings, craving, deaving, dogvane, engrave, evading, evangel, genevas, gingiva, graving, halving, heaving, leaving, pavings, ravings, reaving, salving, savings, shaving, slaving, staving, vaginae, vaginal, vaginas, vagrant, vailing, valuing, valving, vamping, vanning, vantage, varying, vatting, vealing, ventage, vialing, vicugna, vinegar, vintage, visaing, waiving, weaving. | |
+4 letters: advising, agentive, anviling, arriving, availing, avengers, avenging, averring, averting, aviating, avoiding, avulsing, behaving, bravoing, carvings, caviling, cleaving, cravings, davening, dogvanes, engraved, engraver, engraves, envisage, evangels, favoring, galavant, galivant, galvanic, gaveling, gingivae, gingival, gravamen, graviton, grievant, hangover, havening, havering, invading, leavings, mangrove, navigate, negative, overhang, ravaging, raveling, ravening, ravingly, ravining, repaving, rivaling, salvoing, savaging, savingly, savoring, savvying, scavenge, shavings, sheaving, sleaving, starving, vacating, vagabond, vaginate, vagrancy, vagrants, valeting, vamosing, vanguard, vantages, vaporing, vaulting, vaunting, veganism, vegetant, venogram, ventages, vialling, vicinage, vicugnas, vigilant, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, vintages, virginal, voyaging, wavering. | |
+5 letters: absolving, achieving, advancing, advantage, advecting, adverting, agentives, anvilling, approving, archiving, averaging, avouching, beavering, bereaving, canvasing, caveating, caverning, cavilling, cavorting, clavering, concaving, cravening, deleaving, depraving, devaluing, deviating, dissaving, elevating, engravers, engraving, enslaving, envisaged, envisages, evangelic, favouring, flavoring, galavants, galivants, gallivant, galvanise, galvanism, galvanize, gavelkind, gavelling, gavotting, genitival, grapevine, gravamens, gravamina, graveling, graveness, gravitons, grievance, grievants, hangovers, havocking, inweaving, laveering, lavishing, leavening, levanting, mangroves, marveling, navigable, navigably, navigated, navigates, navigator, negatived, negatives, obviating, outraving, overawing, overhangs, ovulating, pervading, quavering, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, ravishing, reavowing, reengrave, reshaving, revaluing, revamping, revealing, reweaving, rivalling, salvaging, savouring, scavenged, scavenger, scavenges, shaveling, slavering, solvating, traveling, unavenged, unaverage, unvarying, unweaving, upheaving, vacuuming, vagabonds, vaginally, vaginitis, vagotonia, vagotonic, vagrantly, vagueness, vainglory, valancing, valuating, vamoosing, vanguards, vanishing, vaporings, vapouring, variating, varooming, varyingly, vaultings, veganisms, vengeance, venograms, vibrating, vicinages, vigilance, vigilante, villenage, vinegared, vintagers, violating, virginals, vitiating, vulgarian. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01010110 01000001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 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)56354841 |
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