Found 4 hits - Term: gong, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gong \gong\, n. as. gong, gang, a going, passage, drain. see
gang.
a privy or jakes. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
gong farmer, gong man, a cleaner of privies. obs.
1913 webster
see also:
gang gong farmer gong man
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gong \gong\, n.
1. malayan jav. g=ong. an instrument, first used in the
east, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a
disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a
harsh and resounding noise.
1913 webster
o'er distant deserts sounds the tartar gong.
--longfellow.
1913 webster
2. mach. a flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a
small hammer which is connected with it by various
mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls
or alarms; -- called also gong bell.
1913 webster
gong metal, an alloy 78 parts of copper, 22 of tin, from
which oriental gongs are made.
1913 webster
see also:
gong bell gong metal
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
gong
n 1: a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is
struck with a soft-headed drumstick syn: tam-tam
2: a percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes
of different lengths that are struck with a hammer syn: chime,
bell
v : sound a gong
see also:
tam-tam chime bell
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
77 moby thesaurus words for "gong":
battery, bell, bells, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes,
chink, church bell, clang, clangor, clank, clapper, clappers,
clink, cowbell, crash cymbal, cymbals, ding, dingdong, dinner bell,
dinner gong, dong, doorbell, finger cymbals, fire bell, gamelan,
glockenspiel, gong bell, hand bell, handbells, idiophone, jangle,
jingle, jingle bell, jinglejangle, knell, lyra, maraca, marimba,
metallophone, orchestral bells, passing bell, peal, percussion,
percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rattle,
rattlebones, ring, ring changes, sacring bell, sheepbell, sizzler,
sleigh bell, snappers, sound, sound a knell, tam-tam,
telephone bell, ting, tingle, tink, tinkle, tintinnabula,
tintinnabulate, tintinnabulum, toll, tongue, tonitruone, triangle,
tubular bells, vibes, vibraphone, xylophone
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