ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tonging

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of tong.

present participle and gerund of tong
The action of seizing, grabbing, holding, or manipulating a given object with tongs.
(colloquial) The action of seizing an object with tongs for the purpose of pictorially documenting the event.
The action of opening wine bottles with port tongs by superheating the glass with the heated tongs, and then rapidly cooling the glass neck by applying a cold substance, thereby fracturing the glass neck open through heat stress.

Use tonging when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

Tonging means present participle and gerund of tong.

The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

Use tonging where its definition matches the intended context.

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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

present participle and gerund of tong.

present participle and gerund of tong
The action of seizing, grabbing, holding, or manipulating a given object with tongs.
(colloquial) The action of seizing an object with tongs for the purpose of pictorially documenting the event.
The action of opening wine bottles with port tongs by superheating the glass with the heated tongs, and then rapidly cooling the glass neck by applying a cold substance, thereby fracturing the glass neck open through heat stress.

Use tonging when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

Tonging means present participle and gerund of tong.

The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

Use tonging where its definition matches the intended context.

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.