gangue

Borrowed from French gangue. Doublet of gang.

• enPR: găng, IPA^(key): /ɡæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ
• Homophone: gang

gangue (countable and uncountable, plural gangues)

1. (mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
   • 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 147:

     Thus the percentage recovery of metal from the ore was much higher than in the primitive process where the semi-vitrified gangue and half-smelted ore are typically rich in prills of copper and copper minerals.

• veinstone

• endogangue
• exogangue

•   gangue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   extractive metallurgy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

A borrowing from German Gang (“way, path, trail, track, course, line, duct”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃ɡ/

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gangue f (plural gangues)

1. (geology, mining) gangue

• “gangue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gang (dated)

From English gang.

• Hyphenation: gan‧gue

gangue (Portugal) m or (Brazil) f (plural gangues)

1. gang; street gang (criminal group, especially one that practices petty crime)

   Synonyms: quadrilha, bando, (well organised) facção

2. gang (a group of friends who do things together regularly, especially mischievous children)

   Synonyms: turma, patota

• ganguezinha (diminutive) (Brazil)

• gângster

• “gangue”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024