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In some senses, tung is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
tung
noun 2name 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
national, near, own, poisonous, territorial, true
VERB + TUNG
envy, seeds, spelling
TUNG + NOUN
hamburger, island, shold, slander, tree, university
Definitions
noun
1
Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.
I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …
… ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …
noun
1
A tung tree.
name
1
Synonym of Lincoln Island.
A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorised, in relation to this military provocation by the U.S. military plane, to issue the 482nd serious warning.
“From 1840 hours on March 18, 1972 to 0935 hours on March 20, 1972, one U.S. warship, the George K. MacKenzie intruded into Chinese territorial waters near Tung Island, 16°, 14', 6” north, 112°, 43', 48” east, off the Hsi Sha Islands, Kwantung^([sic – meaning Kwangtung]) Province, China.
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I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …
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… ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …
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Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.
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A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chi
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“From 1840 hours on March 18, 1972 to 0935 hours on March 20, 1972, one U.S. warship, the George K. MacKenzie intruded into Chinese territorial waters near Tung Island, 16°, 14', 6” north, 112°, 43',
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Every island in Hsisha is a veritable treasure island. The Tung Island is the home of large flocks of boobies. As these birds feed on fish, the fishermen are sure to get to the site of large shoals by
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