Gang
[gæŋ] or [ɡæŋ]
Definition
(noun.) tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together.
(noun.) an organized group of workmen.
(noun.) an association of criminals; 'police tried to break up the gang'; 'a pack of thieves'.
(verb.) act as an organized group.
Edited by Jeffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To go; to walk.
(v. i.) A going; a course.
(v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
(v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.
(v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.
(v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
Editor: Tod
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Company, crew, band, horde, party, set, CLIQUE, COTERIE, CABAL.
Checked by Alissa
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CREW]
Checker: Thelma
Definition
n. a number of persons or animals associated for a certain purpose usually in a bad sense: a number of labourers working together during the same hours: the range of pasture allowed to cattle: a set of tools &c. used together for any kind of work.—ns. Gang′er Gangs′man the foreman of a squad as of plate-layers.
v.i. (Scot.) to go.—n.pl. Gang′-days the three days preceding Ascension Day or Holy Thursday.—n. Gang′er a walker: a fast-going horse.
Typed by Brian
Examples
- The Worthingdon bank gang, cried the inspector. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This Blessington or Sutton, who was the worst of the gang, turned informer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- So soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the gang in possession, and its days are numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We got a gang of men, cut the current off for several junction-boxes, and fixed the leak. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now that we know that the gang are here, I don't see how they can escape. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was no labour slavery, no gang servitude. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work, said the inspector. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now gangs of such saws may be found in America and elsewhere, and circular saws have also been added. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If I make pretty handsomely on one or two next gangs, he thought, I reckon I'll stop off this yer; it's really getting dangerous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For many such purposes gangs of captives were cheaper and far more controllable than levies of the king's own people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You can find Tammany duplicated wherever there is a social group to be governed--in trade unions, in clubs, in boys' gangs, in the Four Hundred, in the Socialist Party. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Inputed by Harvey