2. Verb. (third-person singular of gong) ¹
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Definition of Gongs
1. gong [v] - See also: gong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gongs
Literary usage of Gongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fire Prevention: A Treatise and Text Book on Making Life and Property Safe by Peter Joseph McKeon (1912)
"When an alarm has been sent from one of the fire alarm boxes—say on the fifth (5th)
floor—all the alarm gongs on the various floors shall ring the number of ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... almost complete deafness, preceded by bilateral auditory hallucinations of
peculiar sounds, as if steam was escaping or gongs ringing and followed Fie. ..."
3. EMF Electrical Year Book by Electrical Trade Publishing Company (1921)
"Devices consisting of large metal gongs and suitable clappers attached to the car.
... —As the name Indicates these gongs are electrically controlled but ..."
4. The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke (1889)
"... Signals and Switches—Electric Annunciators to Indicate the Movements—The Block
Signal System—Protection for Crossings—Gates and gongs—How Derailment is ..."
5. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... this burned for some time, and then changed into a mandarin seated in his
sedan-chair, with the usual train of attendants, bearing flags, beating gongs, ..."
6. Burma Past and Present by Albert Fytche (1878)
"Fine tone of their bells and gongs.—A peculiar triangular one used on "worship
days."—Population of British Burma.— Gross revenue receipts, imperial, ..."
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