Definitions for engs

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engs eng

Spelling: [eng]

IPA: /ɛŋ/

Engs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in engs (egns).

Definitions for engs

noun

1. the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).

Origin of engs

1955-60; by analogy with the names of m and n

Examples for engs

The Swedish form is gatlopp, in which gat is cognate with eng.

This seems to contradict the proposition in the article on Greville in the eng.

Slave trade, begun by Europe, brutality of, 5;maintained by eng.

Mr. eng shook hands with all the cabin party, and went ashore.

In that old former time this one was Chang, that one was eng.

They had an ice-chest on board, and Mr. eng had replenished it at Simujan.

This is because eng likes to go out; Chang's habits are sedentary.

Reuter, a trooper, which has given the sixteenth-century eng.

Dictionary, 759 seq.; and more completely in his Principles of eng.

Geld, money, has no connection with gold, but is cognate with eng.