prong
Speech parts
1. prong - Noun
2. prong - Verb
Meaning
A sharp-pointed instrument.
The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
A sharp projection, as of an antler.
The fang of a tooth.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe: No, we are not ruling that out. I'm just going out with the flow, he has not ruled it out. The first prong of the people itself. Whatever they must do, they must find also benefit and that's a long process started.
Because of the difference in the length of one prong, the launch system detected the difference in the power disconnection as a "cut-off signal to the engine".
As two battalions of Chasseurs approached, the second prong of the Imperial Guard's attack, Maitland's guardsmen rose and devastated them with point-blank volleys.
However, they also criticized the first prong of the Lemon test, noting that "to look for the sole purpose of even a single legislator is probably to look for something that does not exist".
In an amicus brief, the ACLU argued that child pornography that violates the three prong obscenity test should be outlawed, but that the law in question was overly restrictive because it outlawed artistic displays and otherwise non-obscene material.
She is credited with introducing the fork to Western Europe - chronographers mention the astonishment she caused when she "used a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth" instead of using her hands as was the norm."