different between gang vs knot

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?ng, IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to go, walk, turn out”), from Proto-Germanic *gangan? (“to go, walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“to step, walk”). Cognate with Scots gang (“to go on foot, walk”), Swedish gånga (“to walk, go”), Faroese ganga (“to walk”), Icelandic ganga (“to walk, go”), Vedic Sanskrit ????? (já?has). Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.

Alternative forms

• gan

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.
   • 1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy. Act III

     (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit ????? (já?has).

Noun

gang (plural gangs)

2. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

   the Gashouse Gang

   The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.

3. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

   a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool.

4. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

   a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang.

6. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.

   The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.

7. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

   The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.

   Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.

8. (US) A chain gang.
9. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

   a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling.

10. A set; all required for an outfit.

    a new gang of stays.

11. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

    an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.

12. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

    a gang of wires

    Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.

13. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
    • 1840, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes I.3:

      In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang

    • 1869, Papa André, Once a Week, page 418/1:

      That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.

    • 1895, Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl, Modern Language Association of America, page 229:

      Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies.

14. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    • c. 1000, Aelfric, Homilies, Vol. I, page 290:

      Þaða he to gange com.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: gangue
• ? Thai: ???? (g??ng)

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. (transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
   • 1981, United States. Department of Defense, Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems (page 58)

     Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]

Derived terms

• gang up
• gang up on

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 3

See gan.

Verb

gang (second-person singular simple present gangst)

1. Pronunciation spelling of gan.

Etymology 4

Shortening of gangbang.

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.
   • 2015, Richard Allen, Skinhead, page 80:

     […] there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.

References

• The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Etymology 5

Noun

gang (countable and uncountable, plural gangs)

1. (mining) Alternative form of gangue

Anagrams

• gnag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gang, from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gang (plural gange)

1. a passageway, alley

Alemannic German

Verb

gang

1. second-person imperative singular of gaa

Balinese

Etymology

From Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”).

Noun

gang

1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gang

Etymology 1

From English gang.

Noun

gang

1. a gang; a criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city

Etymology 2

From langga, pangga. Compare lang.

Noun

gang

1. a term of address for a beloved person; dear; sweetie

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gang.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??an??/, [?????]
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

From Old Danish gang, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“stride, step”).

Noun

gang c (singular definite gangen, plural indefinite gange)

1. the act of walking, a walk
2. a time (an occurrence, an incidence)

   Hvor mange gange slog klokken?

   How many times did the bell toll?

3. a way or path to walk on, either outdoors or indoors (a corridor)

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See gange.

Verb

gang

1. imperative of gange

References

• “gang” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “gang” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gang m (plural gangen, diminutive gangetje n)

1. passageway, alley
2. gait, walk (person's manner of walking or stepping)
3. journey
4. hallway, corridor
5. course

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gang
• ? Indonesian: gang

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gang.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /????/
• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

1. gang, group of ill-doers

Derived terms

• en gang

Further reading

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

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gang

1. river

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 114

German

Verb

gang

1. obsolete form of geh, second-person imperative singular of gehen

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

gang (plural gangok)

1. (informal) hanging corridor (along the main walls of the courtyard of a tenement building, a major venue of socializing with neighbours)

   Synonym: (mainly as an architectural term) függ?folyosó

Declension

Derived terms

• gangos
• körgang

Further reading

• gang 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

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”), from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Doublet of geng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Hyphenation: gang

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides

   Synonym: lorong

Descendants

• ? Min Nan: ? (kàn, “narrow street”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

1. Alternative spelling of geng (“gang”)

Verb

gang

1. Alternative spelling of geng

References

Further reading

• “gang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Alternative forms

• ganga, ghenga, ghega (dated)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?/

Noun

gang f (invariable, dated plural gangs)

1. gang, specifically:
   1. (dated) A group of people.
   2. (dated) A group of laborers under one foreman.
   3. A criminal group.

Related terms

• gangster

References

• gang in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Mandarin

Pronunciation

Romanization

gang

1. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gàng.

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural ganger, definite plural gangene)

1. hall, hallway

   Sett fra deg skoene i gangen.

   Leave your shoes in the hallway.

2. passage, corridor

   I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.

   The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.

3. aisle
4. walk, path
5. walk, walking, going
6. walk, gait

   Gangen hans er litt merkelig.

   His gait is a bit weird

7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8. course; passage
9. course; march
10. time

    Vi vant fem ganger på rad!

    We won five times in a row!

11. plot, action

    Historiens gang var litt komplisert.

    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.

12. (mining) dike, lode
13. vein
14. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

References

• “gang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural gangar, definite plural gangane)

1. hall, hallway

   Sett frå deg skorne i gangen.

   Leave your shoes in the hallway.

2. passage, corridor

3. aisle
4. walk, path
5. walk, walking, going
6. walk, gait

   Gangen hans er litt merkeleg.

   His gait is a bit weird

7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8. course; passage
9. course; march
10. plot, action

    Gangen i soga var litt komplisert.

    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.

11. (mining) dike, lode
12. vein
13. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

See also

• gong

References

• “gang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• geng, gong, gung

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Related to Old English gangan (“to go, walk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?/, [????]

Noun

gang m

1. going, walking
2. path
3. gait
4. toilet

Declension

Derived terms

• gangsetl
• gangst?l
• ingang
• niþergang
• ?pgang
• ?tgang
• ymbgang

Descendants

• Middle English: gang, gong
  • Scots: gang
  • English: gang, gong, goung
    • ? Dutch: gang
    • ? Portuguese: gangue
    • ? Norman: dgaîngue

Derived terms

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Noun

gang m (plural ganga)

1. A path, course, way, journey; a going

Declension

Derived terms

• ubargang
• Wolfgang

Descendants

• Middle High German: ganc
  • German: Gang

Polish

Etymology

From English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ank/

Noun

gang m inan

1. gang (criminal group with a common background)

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) gangster, gangsterstwo, gangsteryzm
• (adjective) gangsterski

Further reading

• gang in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gang in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

gang m (Portugal) or f (Brazil) (plural gangs)

1. Dated spelling of gangue.

Romanian

Etymology

From German Gang

Noun

gang n (plural ganguri)

1. passageway

Declension

Scots

Alternative forms

• gae
• gan

Etymology

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan, Old Norse ganga, with inflected forms from Old English g?n (like English go).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

gang (third-person singular present gangs, present participle gaun, past gaed, past participle gaen)

1. To go.
   • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red, Rose":

   And I will love thee still, my dear
   Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Spanish

Etymology

From English gang.

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

1. gang

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *c-ka?? (“handspan”).

Noun

gang

1. a handspan

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *t-ka??, from Old Chinese ? (OC *C.k?a?) (B-S) (SV: c??ng).

Noun

gang

1. cast iron

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /n?t/
• (General American) enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Homophones: not, naught (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare Latin n?dus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of node.

Noun

knot (plural knots)

1. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

   Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.

2. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.

   The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.

3. A maze-like pattern.
4. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).

   A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.

       A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical knot. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial knot and the pair of knots become a link. If more than one mathematical knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.

5. A difficult situation.

   I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.

   • 1664, Robert South, A Sermon Preached Before the University at Christ-Church, Oxon

     A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.

6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

   When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.

7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

   Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.

8. A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
9. A protuberant joint in a plant.
10. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

      With lips severely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.

11. the swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
12. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

    the knot of the tale

13. (engineering) A node.
14. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
15. A group of people or things.
    • 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,

      He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.

16. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
    • 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead

      ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed

17. (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹?₁₂₀ of a mile.)

    Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.

18. (nautical) A nautical mile
19. (slang) The bulbus glandis
20. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
    • 2014, Mark Shrayber, "'Knotting' Is the Weird Fanfic Sex Trend That Cannot Be Unseen", Jezebel, 18 July 2014:

      Since the knot won't release until the alpha has finished and can't be controlled by either party, the sex has to go on until it's done.

    • 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:

      The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.

    • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:

      When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:knot.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (whorl in wood): shake

Verb

knot (third-person singular simple present knots, present participle knotting, simple past and past participle knotted)

1. (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.

   We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites

     as tight as I could knot the noose

2. (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

   She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.

3. To unite closely; to knit together.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

4. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
5. (intransitive) To form knots.
6. (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.

Synonyms

• (form into a knot): bind, tie
• (form wrinkles in forehead): knit
• (unite closely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
• (entangle or perplex): baffle, flummox; see also Thesaurus:confuse

Antonyms

• (form into a knot): loosen, unbind, unknot, untie

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.

Noun

knot (plural knots or knot)

1. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
   • c.1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Red Knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tkon, Tonk, tonk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?knot]

Noun

knot m

1. A candle wick

Declension

Further reading

• knot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• knot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kn?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch cnudde, Old Dutch *knotto, from Proto-Germanic *knuttan-, *knuttô.

Related to knod, English knot, West Frisian knotte, Middle High German Knotze, German Knoten, Danish knude, Norwegian knute, Swedish knut, etc.

Noun

knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)

1. A knot, bun (of hair), skein
2. The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
3. A flax seed box
4. (dialect) A marble to play with
5. A prank, joke

Derived terms

• knotten (verb)
• knotrank
• knottenkaf n
• haarknot
• vlasknot
• beknotten (verb)

Related terms

• knotwilg

Etymology 2

From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by Vulgar Latin canutus (“grey-headed", "grizzled”)

Noun

knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)

1. The bird species Calidris canutus (syn. Tringa canutis)

Synonyms

• kanoetstrandloper m
• kanoetvogel m

Anagrams

• kont

Middle English

Noun

knot

1. Alternative form of knotte

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German knotze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kn?t/

Noun

knot m inan (diminutive knotek or knocik)

1. wick (of a candle)

Declension

Further reading

• knot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• knot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kr?t?.

Noun

knot m anim

1. mole, talpid (mammal of the family Talpidae)