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tng

tng is the abbreviation of training.

Meaning of training

Noun

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

  1. (usually) Action of the verb to train.
  2. (usually) The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
    • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60
  3. (usually) The result of good social upbringing.
  4. (usually) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
  5. (usually, voice recognition) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

Noun (1) capitalized: TNG

TNG (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of trinitroglycerin.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: TNG

TNG

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Territory of New Guinea.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: TNG

TNG

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Trans–New Guinea.

Adjective capitalized: TNG

TNG

  1. Of or pertaining to younger BDSM practitioners, typically under the age of approximately 35 years, especially as a collective.
    • For example, some communities set up TNG (The Next Generation) groups to address the issue of young people coming into communities and being overwhelmed by attention from much older, and more experienced, dominants (a dynamic which is exacerbated by many older submissives having left the community...2013 December, Meg Barker, “Consent Is a Grey Area? A Comparison of Understandings of Consent in Fifty Shades of Grey and on the BDSM Blogosphere”, in Sexualities, volume 16, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN...
    • Research on these topics at college campuses might be difficult to conduct, particularly if the researchers do not want to focus on people who already identify with the BDSM community. The researchers might want to connect with local TNG (The Next Generation, for people 18-35 years old) groups...2018, Carolyn Meeker, Negotiating Self: An Exploration of Women’s Perceptions of Their Feminist and Submissive Identities (doctoral dissertation), Miami, Florida: Florida International University...

Noun (2) capitalized: TNG

TNG (plural TNGs)

  1. A social club for younger BDSM practitioners, typically for those under the age of approximately 35 years.
    • Many cities including Madison (Wisconsin), San Francisco, Boston, Vancouver, Columbus (Ohio), Albuquerque, Glendale (Arizona), Tucson, and Austin (TX) also have a TNG.2009, Jennifer Tyburczy, Exhibiting Sexualities: Pleasure, Power, and Performance in Museums (doctoral dissertation), Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, page 294
    • TNG was the brainchild of some young adult kinksters entering the BDSM scene in New York and the first one formed there in 1999. Since then TNGs have sprung up nationwide in many major cities.2015 February 25, Darian, Keiden, Laura, Reese, and Tex, “Kinked Off” (letter to the editor), in Baltimore City Paper Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Sun Media Group, retrieved March 2, 2022

Proper noun (3) capitalized: TNG

TNG

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Proper noun (4) capitalized: TNG

TNG

  1. (abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Transitional National Government of Somalia.

Noun (3) capitalized: TnG

TnG (uncountable)

  1. (Malaysia, abbreviation, informal) Abbreviation of Touch 'n Go (“an electronic payment system from Malaysia”).

Forms of tng

pluralTNGs

Origin of tng

Initialism of the next generation.

Phrases with tng

Questions about tng

What does tng mean?
Tng means of or pertaining to younger BDSM practitioners, typically under the age of approximately 35 years, especially as a collective.
What is tng the abbreviation of?
Tng is the abbreviation of training.
What part of speech is tng?
Tng can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of tng?
The plural of tng is TNGs.

Words near tng in the dictionary

  1. TNF
  2. TNF inhibitor
  3. TNF inhibitors
  4. TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome
  5. TNFi
  6. tng
  7. tnge.
  8. TNGs
  9. tnks
  10. TNLN
  11. TNN

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tng (page history and authors); TNG (page history and authors); TnG (page history and authors); training (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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