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# twang

«twang» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sharp, ringing sound like the sound of a tight string…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a twang, twangs); verb (twang, twangs, twanged, twanging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A twang is a sharp, ringing sound like the sound of a tight string being plucked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#m1)

2) A twang is a way of speaking where the voice sounds partly through the nose, often part of an accent: «a Southern twang». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#m2)

3) To twang is to make that sound, or to pluck a string so it makes it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music and science lessons on sound, a plucked rubber band or guitar string twangs; a tighter or shorter string makes a higher twang. In stories «a twang» of an accent tells the reader where a character comes from. Phrases: «the twang of a guitar», «a country twang», «an Australian twang».

### examples

- The guitar string made a loud twang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x1)
- He twanged the rubber band across the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x2)
- She spoke with a slight American twang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x3)
- The arrow left the bow with a twang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x4)
- Stretch the band tighter for a higher twang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x5)
- The banjo twanged in the background. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x6)
- Grandpa has a Texan twang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x7)
- He bent his bow and the sinewy string twanged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/#x8)

### note

Plural: twangs. Past: twanged. «Twang» is an onomatopoeia — the word sounds like the noise it names.

### In the corpora

- [Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twang» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twang/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.