different between pang vs pinch

English

Etymology 1

The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, pr?nge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death throes”), from Anglo-Latin pronga, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with Middle Dutch prange, pranghe (“instrument for pinching”) (modern Dutch prang (“horse restraint; fetter, neck iron”)), Middle Low German prange (“pole, stake; (possibly) kind of pillory or stocks”), Old English pyngan (“to prick”). The word may thus be related to prong.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?ng, IPA^(key): /pæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

pang (plural pangs)

1. (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
2. (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.

Derived terms

• birth pangs
• hunger pangs
• pang of conscience

Translations

Verb

pang (third-person singular simple present pangs, present participle panging, simple past and past participle panged)

1. (transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.

Translations

References

Further reading

• pang in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Verb

pang

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of ping

Estonian

Noun

pang (genitive pange, partitive pange)

1. bucket

   Synonym: ämber

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• pang in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p???]
• Rhymes: -???

Verb

pang

1. (intransitive, chiefly in the third person) to stagnate, to be in stasis (e.g. of business or bodily circulation)

   Synonyms: stagnál, megreked, tesped

Conjugation

The infinitive is more common in the form pangani.

Derived terms

• pangás
• pangó

Further reading

• pang 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

Javanese

Noun

pang

1. branch

Ludian

Noun

pang

1. handle

Mandarin

Romanization

pang

1. Nonstandard spelling of p?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of páng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of p?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pàng.

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.

Min Nan

Romansch

Alternative forms

• paun (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter)
• pàn (Sutsilvan)
• pan (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin p?nis, p?nem.

Noun

pang m

1. (Surmiran) bread

Noun

pang m (plural pangs)

1. (Surmiran) loaf of bread

Swedish

Interjection

pang

1. bang (verbal percussive sound)

Noun

pang n

1. bang, explosion
   • 1887, August Strindberg, Hemsöborna

     när plötsligen det hördes ett pang! utanför på gården och rasslet av glasskärvor.

     when suddenly they heard a bang! outside in the yard and the sound of broken glass.

2. (colloquial, dated) pension house, hotel; Contraction of pensionat.

Usage notes

• The Swedish translation of John Cleese's Fawlty Towers (1975), "Pang i bygget" (1979) is a pun based on both definitions.

Declension

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pa?/

Prefix

pang

1. Adjective prefix (an action or a practice associated with the thing or action expressed by the root)

   ?pang + ?babae (“woman”) ? ?pang-babae (“for women only”)

2. instrumentative case of the noun (a tool or an instrument that is used to perform the action expressed by the root)

   ?pang + ?takip (“a cover”) ? ?pangtakip (“an instrument used to cover something”)

Veps

Noun

pang

1. handle

English

Etymology

From Middle English pinchen, from Old French *pinchier, pincer (“to pinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”), from possible merger of *puncti?re (“a puncture, sting”), from Latin puncti? (“a puncture, prick”) and *picc?re (“to strike, sting”), from Frankish *pikk?n, from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n? (“to pick, peck, prick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

pinch (third-person singular simple present pinches, present participle pinching, simple past and past participle pinched)

1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

   The children were scolded for pinching each other.

   This shoe pinches my foot.

2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
3. To squeeze between two objects.
4. (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.

   Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
5. (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
6. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
7. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
8. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

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

   • 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper

     the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

10. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
11. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

    to be pinched for money

    • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

      want of room […] which pincheth the whole nation

    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

      The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.

12. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
13. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
    • 1809, Alexander Chalmers ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to Geoffrey Chaucer, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":

      Therefore who so them accuse

      Of any double entencion,

      To speake, rowne, other to muse,

      To pinch at their condicion,

      All is but false collusion,

      I dare rightwell the sothe express,

      They have no better protection,

      But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

Derived terms

• pinch off
• pinch out
• pinch a loaf

Translations

Noun

pinch (plural pinches)

1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.

   I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
   • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 171:

     It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
7. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
   • 2001, Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time:

     It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.

9. (slang) An arrest.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (pinchi)

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