noun
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A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
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A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
verb
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To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
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To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
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To give an award or medal to.
noun
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An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
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The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
Examples of gongs in a Sentence
They also make wooden gongs, or drums. They used to make wooden fishhooks, clubs, spears and bows.
A ring of slots is punched out beneath each of the bell gongs.
The sound is out of proportion to the metal used, and is inferior to that of the Shan and Burmese gongs.
So it seems that arts programs are not just banned from primetime but also from the big gongs!
The Gamelan is a beautiful set of musical instruments comprising of bronze gongs and metallophones.
They are an extension of the principle on which gongs and cymbals and all instruments without notes of determinate pitch are employed in otherwise polyphonic music.
It may easily be heard when a double whistle with notes of different pitch is blown strongly, or when two gongs are loudly sounded close to the hearer.
A new church is anointed at its four corners, and also the altar round which it is built; similarly tombs, church gongs, and all other instruments and utensils dedicated to cultual uses.