Fang vs. Flesh — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fang and Flesh
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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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