GANGUE

Definition: GANGUE

GANGUE

Noun

1. The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Gangue \Gangue\, noun. [French expression gangue, from German gang metallic vein, passage. See Gang, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Valueless rock or mineral aggregates in an ore; that part of an ore that is not economically desirable but cannot be avoided in mining. Source: European Union. (references)
Geography	The portion of an ore which contains no metal. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	The earthy part of an ore, that contains no metal. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	The valueless minerals in an ore; that part of an ore that is not economically desirable but cannot be avoided in mining. It is separatedfrom the ore minerals during concentration. CF:ore mineral. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym by domain: veinstone (geography).

"GANGUE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "GANGUE" is used about 8 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)	50%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	50%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Expression using "GANGUE": gangue mineral. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "GANGUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		矸石. (various references)

Danish		gangbjergart (gangue mineral, veinstone), gangart (brood, gait, matrix, pace), malm (brood, malm, matrix, ore). (various references)

Dutch		gangsteen, ganggesteentemineraal (gangue mineral), ganggesteente (rocky matrix, veinstone), ertsganggesteente (brood, matrix). (various references)

Finnish		sivukivi (attle, bur, burr, burrow, country rock, country rocks, enclosing rock, native rock, partition rock, rocky matrix, rubbish, surrounding rocks, wall rock), malmin sivukivi (brood, matrix), harme (attle, brood, burrow, matrix, rocky matrix, rubbish). (various references)

French		gangue de minerai, gangue, minéral de gangue (gangue mineral). (various references)

German		Gangart (attle, bearing, brood, burrow, carriage, gait, gangue mineral, matrix, pace, rocky matrix, rubbish, speed, stance, walk, way of walking). (various references)

Greek		σύνδρομα ορυκτά (brood, matrix), στείρο (attle, brood, burrow, matrix, rocky matrix, rubbish), γαιώδεις προσμίξεις, χώμα μεταλλεύματος. (various references)

Italian		ganga (attle, band, brood, burrow, gang, matrix, rocky matrix, rubbish, veinstone). (various references)

Pig Latin		anguegay.(various references)

Portuguese		ganga inerte (brood, matrix), ganga (brood, dungaree, matrix, rocky matrix), estéril (abortive, barren, brood, close-fisted, effete, fruitless, futile, germfree, hard set, hungry, impoverished, infertile, jejune, lean, matrix, penurious, poor, sterile, ungrateful, unproductive, useless, vain). (various references)

Romanian		Gangã (gallery). (various references)

Spanish		ganga de minerales (brood, matrix), ganga (attle, bargain, burrow, gift, giveaway, mullock, pickup, rubbish, snip). (various references)

Swedish		gångart (attle, brood, burrow, gait, matrix, pace, rubbish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "GANGUE": gangues. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"GANGUE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anghui, Angue, Gageure, gague, Gangadeen, gan-gan, gangel, gangi, gangle, Gaungit, genue, genug, gingus, guangyuan, Gueguen, gunge, Jinghua, Mangue, Pangue, rangue, sangue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words ending with "angue": Cangue, Tangue. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-n-u"
	-1 letter: gauge, genua.
	-2 letters: ague, gaen, gage, gane, gang, gaun, genu, guan.
	-3 letters: age, ane, eau, egg, eng, gae, gag, gan, gen, gnu, gun, nae, nag.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, an, en, na, ne, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-n-u"
	+1 letter: gangues.
	+2 letters: language, leaguing, unageing, untagged.
	+3 letters: languages, rearguing, regauging, slanguage, synagogue.
	+4 letters: augmenting, degaussing, desugaring, gangbuster, gangrenous, gauffering, juggernaut, leaguering, redarguing, regulating, slanguages, synagogues.
	+5 letters: agglutinate, decoupaging, demagoguing, emmenagogue, encouraging, expurgating, gametangium, gangbusters, gauntleting, gigantesque, ingurgitate, juggernauts, nonlanguage, sublanguage, upgathering.
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