different between tongs vs tonos

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /t??z/

Etymology 1

tong ("tool for manipulating things in a fire") + -s

Noun

tongs pl (plural only)

1. An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.

   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

2. (by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.

Derived terms

• ice tongs
• pipe tongs
• port tongs

Translations

See also

• forceps
• pair of tongs
• pincers
• pliers
• scissors
• shears
• tong
• tweezers

Etymology 2

Noun

tongs

1. plural of tong (“instrument”)

Etymology 3

Verb

tongs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tong

Etymology 4

Noun

tongs

1. plural of tong (“Chinese secret society”)

Anagrams

• stong

English

Etymology

From the Modern Greek ????? (tónos, “stress, accent”). Doublet of tone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?n?s/

Noun

tonos (plural tonoi)

1. (orthography and typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ? ? ?, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.

Usage notes

• The tonos is also used to distinguish some homographic monosyllables; for example: ? (i), the feminine definite article, and ? (í), the conjunction “or”. In such cases, the tonos does not reflect a difference in stress.
• When combined with the dialytika, the tonos is written between that diacritic’s two dots, as: ? ? ?.
• As a compromise of forms between the Ancient Greek oxia and baria, the tonos was designed as a vertical bar (similar to ? ? ?, the IPA primary-stress marker); however, in most cases, it and the oxia both take the form of the Latin-script acute accent: ? ´ ?.

Translations

Anagrams

• ONTOS, Ontos, Soton, oonts, snoot, toons

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.no?s/, [?t??no?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.nos/, [?t???n?s]

Noun

ton?s

1. accusative plural of tonus

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tonos/, [?t?o.nos]

Noun

tonos m pl

1. plural of tono