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VANG

Definition: VANG

VANG

Noun

1. A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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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Specialty Definition: Vang

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The municipality Vang in the county of Oppland, Norway, has 1,641 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002.

External links

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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Modern Usage: VANG

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Jonny Vang (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: VANG

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: VANG

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: VANG

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: VANG

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)57.14%4175,879
Noun (singular)42.86%3202,518
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: VANG

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
VangLast name12,0001,000
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VANG

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: VANG

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.

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Derivations: VANG

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).

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Rhyming with "VANG"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "VANG" (pronounced va"ng)
2-a" ngbang, 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.

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Anagrams: VANG

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VANG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 41 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01000001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#65 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56354841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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