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Fang vs. Flesh — What's the Difference?

Fang vs. Flesh — What's the Difference?

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Fang

A fang is a long, pointed tooth. In mammals, a fang is a modified maxillary tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh.

Flesh

Flesh is a term for some soft tissues of an organism. Various multicellular organisms have soft tissues that may be called "flesh".

Fang

A member of a people inhabiting Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.

Flesh

The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat
Thought the boy needed some more flesh on his bones.

Fang

The Bantu language of the Fang.
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Flesh

Such tissue of an animal, used as food
Flesh of a cow.
Fish with white flesh.

Fang

Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects venom.

Flesh

The surface or skin of the human body
Goosebumps on my flesh.

Fang

A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.

Flesh

Fatty tissue
"a woman of wide and abundant flesh" (A.S. Byatt).

Fang

The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.

Flesh

(Botany) The pulpy, usually edible part of a fruit or vegetable.

Fang

A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.

Flesh

The human body
"the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to" (Shakespeare).

Fang

A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh

Flesh

Sensual appetites
Gratification of the flesh.

Fang

A long pointed tooth for injecting venom

Flesh

Substance; reality
"The maritime strategy has an all but unstoppable institutional momentum behind it ... that has given force and flesh to the theory" (Jack Beatty).

Fang

A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.

Flesh

To give substance or detail to; fill out. Often used with out
Fleshed out the novel with a subplot.

Fang

That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.

Flesh

To clean (a hide) of adhering flesh.

Fang

Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.

Flesh

To encourage (a falcon, for example) to participate in the chase by feeding it flesh from a kill.

Fang

(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.

Flesh

To plunge or thrust (a weapon) into flesh.

Fang

Catches on which the coal mining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.

Flesh

(Archaic) To inure (troops, for instance) to battle or bloodshed.

Fang

(nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.

Flesh

To become plump or fleshy; gain weight.

Fang

(nautical) The valve of a pump box.

Flesh

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Fang

(rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.

Flesh

The skin of a human or animal.

Fang

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

Flesh

(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

Fang

To catch, capture; seize.

Flesh

Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

Fang

To take; receive with assent; accept.

Flesh

The human body as a physical entity.

Fang

To receive with hospitality.

Flesh

(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.

Fang

To receive.

Flesh

(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.

Fang

To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Flesh

The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

Fang

To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

Flesh

(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

Fang

To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.

Flesh

(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.

Fang

To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

Flesh

A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

Fang

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

Flesh

(transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.

Fang

The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
Since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

Flesh

(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

Fang

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
The protuberant fangs of the yucca.

Flesh

(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.

Fang

The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.

Flesh

(transitive) To glut.

Fang

A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.

Flesh

(transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.

Fang

A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

Flesh

To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Fang

The valve of a pump box.

Flesh

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

Fang

A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon

Flesh

Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.

Fang

Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey

Flesh

The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life,Were brass impregnable.

Fang

Hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison

Flesh

The human eace; mankind; humanity.
All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Flesh

Human nature
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.

Flesh

In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Flesh

Kindred; stock; race.
He is our brother and our flesh.

Flesh

The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

Flesh

To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; - from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
Full bravely hast thou fleshedThy maiden sword.
The wild dogShall flesh his tooth on every innocent.

Flesh

To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
Old soldiersFleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.

Flesh

To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Flesh

The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

Flesh

Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

Flesh

A soft moist part of a fruit

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