FANGname

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  economicssciencesFour large technology companies, or (metonymically) their stock: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

  • The FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) today are leading the charge, and many of them boast P/Es in the hundreds!

Fangnoun詞源 1/ˈfæŋ/

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  A people of western Africa.

Fangname詞源 1/ˈfæŋ/

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  The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.

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  A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.

Fangname詞源 2

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  A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.

  • Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.
  • FANG COUNTY HYDROELECTRICITY--This year the people in Fang County have developed 135 small hydroelectric power stations with a total installed[...]
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  A surname from Mandarin

fangnoun詞源 1/ˈfæŋ/

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  A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.

  • The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.
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  obsoleteSynonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates.

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  A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom.

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  A pointed extension of the chelicera in spiders, used for injecting venom.

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  Synonym of tooth, particularly in humans.

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  mathematicssciencesEither of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.

fangverb詞源 1/ˈfæŋ/

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  rareTo strike or attack with the fangs.

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  To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

  • chariots fang'd with scythes

fangverb詞源 2/ˈfæŋ/

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  archaicdialectalTo catch, capture; seize.

  • Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.
  • Destruction fang mankind.
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  obsoletedialectalTo take; receive with assent; accept.

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  obsoleteTo receive with hospitality.

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  obsoleteTo receive.

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  dialectalTo receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

fangnoun詞源 3/ˈfæŋ/

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  dialectalA grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.

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  dialectalThat which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.

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  obsoleteAny item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly

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  Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly

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  obsoletebiologybotanynatural-sciencesAny item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly

  • Now take out your Indian Tuberoſes, parting the Off-ſets (but with care, leſt you break their fangs) then pot them in natural (not forc'd) Earth; [...] the protuberant fangs of the Yuca are to be treated like the Tuberoſes.
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  obsoleteAny item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly

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  Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly

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  Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly

fangverb詞源 3/ˈfæŋ/

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  To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

fangverb詞源 4/ˈfæŋ/

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  slangTo drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.

  • Soph was probably out drag-racing with Draz, or fanging down some brightly lit street somewhere hanging out Draz's brother's sunroof and waving at passers-by and screaming.
  • The question of whether rail might be a better long-term option than road is passed over with the speed of a merchant banker fanging up the toll road to Mount Buller for the weekend[…]