Tong

//tɔŋ//

Synonyms for "tong" (206 found)

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Closest matches (42)

Strong matches (61)

Related words (103)

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Translations

75 translations across 27 languages.

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Armenian

4 entries
  • աքցան noun (tool)
  • ունելի noun (tool)
  • աքցան օգտագործել verb (to use tongs)
  • աքցանով վերցնել verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)

Bhojpuri

1 entries
  • चिमटा noun (tool)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • noun (secret society)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • noun (secret society)
  • 夹子 noun (tool)
  • 夾具 /夹具 noun (tool)
  • 幫會 /帮会 noun (secret society)

Czech

1 entries
  • kleště noun (tool)

Dutch

1 entries
  • tang noun (tool)

Finnish

1 entries
  • pihdit noun (tool)

French

4 entries
  • pince noun (tool)
  • tong noun (secret society)
  • pincer verb (to use tongs)
  • pincer verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)

Galician

1 entries
  • tenaces noun (tool)

German

4 entries
  • Greifzange noun (tool)
  • Tong noun (secret society)
  • mit einer Zange greifen verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)
  • mit einer Zange halten verb (to use tongs)

Hindi

1 entries
  • चिमटा noun (tool)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • fogó noun (tool)

Italian

4 entries
  • molla noun (tool)
  • pinza noun (tool)
  • tenaglia noun (tool)
  • abbrancare verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)

Japanese

1 entries
  • トング noun (tool)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • маша noun (tool)

Middle English

1 entries
  • tonge noun (tool)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries
  • kêlbetan noun (tool)
  • tong noun (secret society)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • ماشه noun (tool)

Polish

4 entries
  • obcęgi noun (tool)
  • tong noun (secret society)
  • używać obcęgów verb (to use tongs)
  • użyć obcęgów verb (to use tongs)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • tenaz noun (tool)
  • atanazar verb (to use tongs)
  • atanazar verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)
  • atazanar verb (to use tongs)

Romanian

1 entries
  • clește noun (tool)

Russian

3 entries
  • ками́нные щипцы́ noun (tool)
  • захвати́ть щипца́ми verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)
  • испо́льзовать щипцы́ verb (to use tongs)

Spanish

3 entries
  • tenaza noun (tool)
  • usar tenaza verb (to use tongs)
  • usar tenaza verb (to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs)

Swedish

2 entries
  • eldtång noun (tool)
  • tång noun (tool)

Thai

1 entries
  • คีม noun (tool)

Turkish

1 entries
  • maşa noun (tool)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • kìm noun (tool)
  • kẹp noun (tool)
  • dùng kìm verb (to use tongs)
  • dùng kẹp verb (to use tongs)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The wealth gap is prevalent in Asia, attracting more white people to come to Asian countries for more privileges, according to Tong Yuying, professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong specializing in social demography and migration.

Source: tatoeba (10640423)

[…] these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?

Source: wiktionary

An Ordinance to provide for the termination of the Block Crown Lease of Cheung Chau granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong and for sub-lessees under the Block Crown Lease to hold directly from the Crown.

Source: wiktionary

Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.

Source: wiktionary

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