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gong [gɒŋ] n 1. (Music / Instruments) Also called tam-tam a percussion instrument of indefinite pitch, consisting of a metal platelike disc struck with a soft-headed drumstick 2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a rimmed metal disc, hollow metal hemisphere, or metal strip, tube, or wire that produces a note when struck. It may be used to give alarm signals when operated electromagnetically 3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Horology) a fixed saucer-shaped bell, as on an alarm clock, struck by a mechanically operated hammer 4. (Military) Brit slang a medal, esp a military one vb
1. (Music / Instruments) (intr) to sound a gong 2. (tr) (of traffic police) to summon (a driver) to stop by sounding a gong [from Malay, of imitative origin] gonglike adj ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations gong [gɒŋ] N 1. → gong m 2. (Brit) (= medal) → medalla f, condecoración f; (in civil service) → cinta f, cintajo m n gong [goŋ] a metal plate which, when struck, gives a ringing sound a dinner gong. ghong جَرَس أو ناقوس التَّنبيه гонг gong gongong der Gong γκογκ, σήμαντρο gong gong گانگ؛ ناقوس نعلبکی شکل kumistin gong גוֹנג घंटा gong gong gong gong, málmdiskur gong どら (신호용) 공, 징 gongas gongs gong gong gongong gong gongue gong гонг gong gong gong gonggong ฆ้อง gong 銅鑼 гонг دھات کا گھنٹہ cái chiêng; cồng 铜锣 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Even Diane Venora, a veteran of the Public Theatre and several Shakespeare films, is doing such an extreme Buster Keaton-esque series of mugging and pratfalls as Lear's Fool that her truth-speaking jester is less at risk of getting hanged than of getting gonged. Three other early multifanged actions were similarly crucial: his gonged appearance (with Bruce Pollack) on The Gong Show in 1978; his drive-by kidnapping of artist-turned-politician Lowell Darling (Kidnap Attempt, 1978); and his own little bravura ring cycle, a critique, in part, of purist art sensibilities for which Labat turned his studio into a training facility (Terminal Gym, 1980-81). The only transformation in the software industry is the ever-changing collection of ways it disguises that you'll be gonged if you get a long division problem incorrect. |
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