What does twang mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. twangnoun

    a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)

  2. twang, nasal twangverb

    exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

  3. twangverb

    cause to sound with a twang

    "He twanged the guitar string"

  4. twangverb

    sound with a twang

    "the bowstring was twanging"

  5. twangverb

    twitch or throb with pain

  6. twangverb

    pluck (strings of an instrument)

    "He twanged his bow"

  7. twangverb

    pronounce with a nasal twang

Wiktionary

  1. twangnoun

    An onomatopoeia for the sound of a vibrating string - e.g. of a bow, or a musical instrument.

  2. twangnoun

    A technical term for a particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electrical guitars.

  3. twangnoun

    A trace of regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.

  4. twangnoun

    A sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.

  5. twangverb

    To produce a sharp vibrating sound.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. To Twangverb

    To make to sound sharply.

    A swaggering accent sharply twang’d off, gives manhood approbation. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

  4. 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

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Twangnoun

    a tang. See Tang a state

  2. 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

  3. Twangverb

    to make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly

  4. Twangnoun

    a harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring

  5. Twangnoun

    an affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Twang

    twang, n. (prov.) a sharp flavour, an aftertaste. [Tang.]

  2. Twang

    twang, n. (Scot.) a twinge.

  3. 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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twang in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twang in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of twang in a Sentence

  1. S. J. Perelman:

    Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

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