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Princeton's WordNet
twangnoun
a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
twang, nasal twangverb
exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
twangverb
cause to sound with a twang
"He twanged the guitar string"
twangverb
sound with a twang
"the bowstring was twanging"
twangverb
twitch or throb with pain
twangverb
pluck (strings of an instrument)
"He twanged his bow"
twangverb
pronounce with a nasal twang
Wiktionary
twangnoun
An onomatopoeia for the sound of a vibrating string - e.g. of a bow, or a musical instrument.
twangnoun
A technical term for a particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electrical guitars.
twangnoun
A trace of regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
twangnoun
A sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
twangverb
To produce a sharp vibrating sound.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Twanginterj.
A word making a quick action, accompanied with a sharp sound. Little used, and little deserving to be used.
There’s one, the best in all my quiver,
Twang! thro’ his very heart and liver. Matthew Prior.Twangnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
They by the sound and twang of nose,
If all be found within, disclose. Samuel Butler, Hudibras.So swells each wind-pipe; ass intones to ass,
Harmonic twang of leather, horn and brass. Alexander Pope.If he be but a person in vogue with the multitude, he can make popular, rambling, incoherent stuff, seasoned with twang and tautology, pass for high rhetorick. Robert South, Sermons.
He has such a twang in his discourse, and ungraceful way of speaking thro’ his nose, that one can hardly understand him. Arbuthnot.
To Twangverb
To make to sound sharply.
A swaggering accent sharply twang’d off, gives manhood approbation. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.
To TWANGverb
To sound with a quick sharp noise.
Etymology: A word formed from the sound.
A thousand twanging instruments
Will hum about mine ears. William Shakespeare, Tempest.His quiver o’er his shoulders Phœbus threw,
His bow twang’d, and his arrows rattled as they flew. Dryd.With her thund’ring voice she menac’d high;
And every accent twang’d with smarting sorrow. Dryden.The twanging bows
Send showers of shafts, that on their barbed points
Alternate ruin bear. Philips.Sounds the tough horn and twangs the quiv’ring string. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
TWANG
TWANG, the Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups, developed by the statistics group of the RAND Corporation, contains a set of functions to support Rubin causal modeling of observational data through the estimation and evaluation of propensity score weights by applying gradient boosting. It has been applied in several studies.
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twang
Twang is a type of sound, often associated with stringed instruments or voices, characterized by a sharp, resonating, and slightly nasal tone. It is strongly associated with country and bluegrass music. Twang can also refer to a distinctive way of speaking English, marked by a pronunciation considered typical of the southern United States.
Webster Dictionary
Twangnoun
a tang. See Tang a state
Twangverb
to sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged
Twangverb
to make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly
Twangnoun
a harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring
Twangnoun
an affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Twang
twang, n. (prov.) a sharp flavour, an aftertaste. [Tang.]
Twang
twang, n. (Scot.) a twinge.
Twang
twang, n. a sharp, quick sound, as of a tight string when pulled and let go: a nasal tone of voice.—v.i. to sound as a tight string pulled and let go: to sound with a quick, sharp noise: to have a nasal sound.—v.t. to make to sound with a twang.—v.i. Twang′le, to twang frequently.—v.t. to cause to twangle. [Tang.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of twang in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of twang in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of twang in a Sentence
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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