different between club vs dong

English

Etymology

From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb- (“log, block”), from *gel- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?b, IPA^(key): /kl?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

club (plural clubs)

1. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
      • 1783, Benjamin Franklin:^[1]

        He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

2. A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.
   1. An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
3. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
   • 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary

     first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club

4. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.

5. A black clover shape (?), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
   1. A playing card marked with such a symbol.

6. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.

7. A club sandwich.
   • 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)

     Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.

8. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

Synonyms

• (association of members): confraternity
• (weapon): cudgel
• (sports association): team

Hyponyms

• chess club
• sports club

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Tokelauan: kalapu

Translations

Verb

club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)

1. (transitive) To hit with a club.

   He clubbed the poor dog.

2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.

   • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.

   a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes

4. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.

   We went clubbing in Ibiza.

   When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.

5. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne

     The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.

6. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

   to club the expense

7. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
8. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
9. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

   to club exertions

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
10. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Derived terms

• clubbing
• go clubbing

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Noun

club m (plural clubs)

1. club (association)
2. (golf) club

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?p/
• Hyphenation: club
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

club m (plural clubs, diminutive clubje n)

1. club, association
2. (golf) club

Derived terms

• clubhuis
• damclub
• golfclub
• handbalclub
• schaakclub
• skiclub
• stamclub
• tennisclub
• voetbalclub

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /klœb/, /klyb/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /kl?b/

Noun

club m (plural clubs)

1. club (association)
2. (golf) club

Synonyms

• (golf club): bâton (Quebec)

Derived terms

• bienvenue au club

Further reading

• “club” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klab/, /?kl?b/

Noun

club m (invariable)

1. club (association)
2. club (golf implement)

Middle English

Noun

club

1. Alternative form of clubbe

Romanian

Etymology

From French club.

Noun

club n (plural cluburi)

1. club

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klub/, [?klu??]

Noun

club m (plural clubs or clubes)

1. club (association)

   Synonyms: asociación, cofradía, gremio

Derived terms

• club de fans
• club nocturno

Further reading

• “club” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng, from Middle Chinese ? (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin ? (tóng)), from Old Chinese ? (*l?o?).

Noun

dong (plural dongs or dong)

1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ?

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. (slang) A penis.
   • 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)

     Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
     Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?

2. (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

Synonyms

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Related terms

• ding-dong

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.

Translations

Verb

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

1. Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.

Etymology 4

Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

Anagrams

• Gond, gnod

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Syncope of dorang.

Pronoun

dong

1. they

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dung?. Cognate to English dung.

Noun

dong m (uncountable)

1. (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure

   Synonym: mest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do??]
• Rhymes: -o??
• Homophone: ??ng

Verb

dong

1. (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
2. (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• dongás
• dongó

(With verbal prefixes):

See also

• ??ng (“currency of Vietnam”)

References

Further reading

• dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• dong in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Mandarin

Romanization

dong

1. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

dong

1. Alternative form of donge

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)

1. (slang) condom

Portuguese

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [zaw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [jaw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaw??m??]

Verb

dong

1. drive, escort

Noun

(classifier cây) dong

1. Phrynium placentarium

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ù??

Etymology

From dyngj.

Noun

dong m (definite dongen)

1. droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn

Zou

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to solicit

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to intercept

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dóng

1. (transitive) to hinder

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dòng

1. (intransitive) to ask

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63