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tanggong [tang.gung.] : maroon (n.); incarcerate (v.) [priso]; strand (v.) [lukong]
Synonyms: priso

Derivatives of tanggong


Glosses:
maroon
n. (person)1. maroona person who is stranded (as on an island).; "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"
~ unfortunate, unfortunate persona person who suffers misfortune.
n. (attribute)2. maroona dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color.
~ purplish-red, purplish reda red with a tinge of purple.
n. (artifact)3. maroonan exploding firework used as a warning signal.
~ firework, pyrotechnic(usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc..
v. (possession)4. maroon, strandleave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.; "the travellers were marooned"
~ desert, desolate, forsake, abandonleave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.; "The mother deserted her children"
v. (change)5. maroonleave stranded on a desert island without resources.; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
~ isolate, insulateplace or set apart.; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
adj. 6. brownish-red, maroonof dark brownish to purplish red.
~ chromaticbeing or having or characterized by hue.
incarcerate
v. (social)1. gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remandlock up or confine, in or as in a jail.; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
~ law, jurisprudencethe collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
~ detain, confinedeprive of freedom; take into confinement.
strand
n. (cognition)1. stranda pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole.; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
~ pattern, form, shapea perceptual structure.; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
n. (artifact)2. strandline consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable.
~ linesomething (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.; "a washing line"
~ plyone of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination.; "three-ply cord"; "four-ply yarn"
~ rope yarnthe strands out of which ropes are made.
n. (artifact)3. chain, strand, stringa necklace made by a stringing objects together.; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"
~ necklacejewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women).
n. (substance)4. fibril, filament, stranda very slender natural or synthetic fiber.
~ barbone of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.
~ cobweb, gossamerfilaments from a web that was spun by a spider.
~ chromatidone of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis.
~ myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyleone of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber.
~ rhizoidany of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc.
~ hyphaany of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
~ paraphysisa sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed.
~ fiber, fibrea slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn.
n. (object)5. stranda poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides).
~ shorethe land along the edge of a body of water.
n. (location)6. stranda street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels.
~ streeta thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"
~ west endthe part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas.
v. (motion)7. stranddrive (a vessel) ashore.
~ landbring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
v. (motion)8. ground, run aground, strandbring to the ground.; "the storm grounded the ship"
~ run aground, groundhit or reach the ground.
~ landbring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"