TG

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See also: tg, Tg, .tg, and T&G

Translingual

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Symbol

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TG

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Togo.
    Synonym: TGO (alpha-3)

English

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Proper noun

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TG

  1. Abbreviation of Telangana.
    Synonym: TS
    • 2014 June 3, “KCR wants TS instead of TG for vehicle registration”, in The Hindu[1]:
      Hitherto, the Centre had cleared a proposal to allot the letters TG to Telangana State, but now the Transport Department has written to the ...
    • 2020 September 18, Sandeep Kumar, Ram Swaroop Meena, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Resources Use Efficiency in Agriculture, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 527:
      The Southern region encompassing Andhra Pradesh (AP), Telangana (TG), AP and TG (two combined projects in both states), Karnataka, Kerala, []

Noun

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TG (countable and uncountable, plural TGs)

  1. Initialism of temporary gentleman.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'A Friend's Friend', Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 176:
      you can get rid of a man you don't like by writing a letter of introduction and putting him, with it, into the train. TG's are best treated thus.
  2. Initialism of transformational grammar.
  3. (LGBT, dated) A transgender person.
    • 1997, Nancy Goldstein, Jennifer L Manlowe, The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women:
      Often, TGs are forced to revert to their original gender in order to obtain services.
  4. Initialism of thyroglobulin.

Adjective

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TG

  1. (LGBT) Initialism of transgender.
  2. (linguistics) Initialism of transformative-generative.

Derived terms

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Interjection

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TG

  1. Initialism of thank God.

Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Possible sources:

  • Initialism of 土共 (tǔgòng).
  • From the emblem of the Communist Party of China. The Latin letters T and G resemble the hammer and the sickle, respectively.

Proper noun

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TG

  1. (Internet slang) Communist Party of China

Etymology 2

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Abbreviation of English Telegram (software).

Proper noun

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TG

  1. (Internet) Telegram (software).

Etymology 3

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Initialism of English tear gas.

Noun

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TG

  1. (Hong Kong) tear gas

German

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Noun

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TG

  1. (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Tiefgarage.
  2. Abbreviation of Taschengeld.

Proper noun

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TG

  1. ISO 3166-2:CH code of Thurgau (canton)

Italian

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TG m (invariable)

  1. Abbreviation of telegiornale.

References

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  1. ^ TG in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Welsh

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TG f (uncountable)

  1. Initialism of technoleg gwybodaeth (information technology).