Tong vs. Tongue: What's the Difference?
Tong and Tongue Definitions
Tong
To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs.
Tongue
The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech.
Tong
A Chinese association or political party.
Tongue
An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks.
Tong
An association or a secret society of Chinese in the United States, believed to be involved in organized crime.
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Tongue
The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food.
Tong
(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
Tongue
A spoken language or dialect.
Tong
A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land
Tongue
Speech; talk
If there is goodness in your heart, it will come to your tongue.
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Tong
A Chinese secret society or gang
Tongue
The act or power of speaking
She had no tongue to answer.
Tong
(intransitive) To use tongs.
Tongue
Tongues Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy.
Tong
(transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
Tongue
Style or quality of utterance
Her sharp tongue.
Tong
Tongue.
Tongue
The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game
The dog gave tongue when the fox came through the hedge.
Tong
In China, an association, secret society, or organization of any kind; in the United States, usually, a secret association of Chinese such as that of the highbinders; in the U. S. the tongs have been frequently associated with criminal activity and gang warfare.
Tongue
The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.
Tongue
A flame.
Tongue
The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe.
Tongue
A spit of land; a promontory.
Tongue
A bell clapper.
Tongue
The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle.
Tongue
A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board.
Tongue
(Music) To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue.
Tongue
To touch or lick with the tongue.
Tongue
To give (someone) a French-kiss.
Tongue
To provide (a board) with a tongue.
Tongue
To join by means of a tongue and groove.
Tongue
(Archaic) To scold.
Tongue
(Music) To articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.
Tongue
To project
A spit of land tonguing into the bay.
Tongue
The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
Tongue
This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
Cold tongue with mustard
Tongue
Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
Tongue
(metonym) A language.
He was speaking in his native tongue.
Tongue
(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.
Tongue
(obsolete) Voice the distinctive sound of a person's speech; accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language.
Tongue
Manner of speaking, often habitually.
Tongue
(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
Tongue
The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
Tongue
(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Tongue
Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Tongue
(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
Tongue
Glossolalia.
Tongue
In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
Tongue
Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
Tongue
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
The tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
Tongue
A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
Tongue
The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
Tongue
The clapper of a bell.
Tongue
(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
Tongue
A small sole (type of fish).
Tongue
(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
Tongue
(music) A reed.
Tongue
(geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
Tongue
On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
Tongue
(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
Tongue
To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
A soil horizon that tongues into clay
Tongue
To join by means of a tongue and groove.
To tongue boards together
Tongue
To talk; to prate.
Tongue
To speak; to utter.
Tongue
To chide; to scold.
Tongue
An organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
Tongue
The power of articulate utterance; speech.
Parrots imitating human tongue.
Tongue
Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
Tongue
Honorable discourse; eulogy.
She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor.
Tongue
A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
Whose tongue thou shalt not understand.
To speak all tongues.
Tongue
Speech; words or declarations only; - opposed to thoughts or actions.
My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Tongue
A people having a distinct language.
A will gather all nations and tongues.
Tongue
The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
Tongue
Any small sole.
Tongue
That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
Tongue
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
Tongue
A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
Tongue
A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
Tongue
The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
Tongue
The clapper of a bell.
Tongue
A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
Tongue
To speak; to utter.
Tongue
To chide; to scold.
How might she tongue me.
Tongue
To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Tongue
To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
Tongue
To talk; to prate.
Tongue
To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Tongue
A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Tongue
A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Tongue
Any long thin projection that is transient;
Tongues of flame licked at the walls
Rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark
Tongue
A manner of speaking;
He spoke with a thick tongue
She has a glib tongue
Tongue
A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
Tongue
The tongue of certain animals used as meat
Tongue
The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
Tongue
Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
Tongue
Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
Tongue
Lick or explore with the tongue
