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Narrator: Today's word is "Prong" — noun, pronounced /prɒŋ/, with the stress on "prong".
Narrator: A prong is one of the long, thin, pointed parts of a fork or similar object.
Narrator: In plain English, it's a spike on a fork.
Narrator: It comes from Middle English, perhaps related to a word meaning to pierce.
Narrator: A common collocation is "a three-pronged plug", which describes a British plug's pins.
Narrator: It differs from "tine", which is the technical word for fork prongs.
Narrator: In a figurative sense, a two-pronged approach attacks a problem in two ways.
Narrator: Cooking, electrics, farming and strategy all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a prong is a point, on a fork or in a plan.
Speaker A: What's a three-pronged strategy?
Speaker B: A plan with three parts! PRONG is a Middle English word for a spike.
Speaker A: Like a fork?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "One prong of the fork is bent", object. "The plug has three prongs", electrics. "We need a two-pronged attack", strategy.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: The adjective is pronged, as in three-pronged, with a hyphen.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Tine is its cousin, spike is its twin, and point is the plain alternative, but prong keeps its forked charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "prong" in AI prompts — useful for strategy planning and product design.
Speaker A: How would strategy use it?
Speaker B: Structure plans.
Prompt: Create a three-pronged plan to reduce customer churn with actions and owners for each prong.
Speaker A: And product design?
Speaker B: Describe objects.
Prompt: Write a spec for a garden fork with four stainless steel prongs.
Speaker A: Could it help travel apps?
Speaker B: Yes, plugs.
Prompt: Tell travellers which countries use three-pronged plugs like the UK.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Presentations.
Prompt: Turn this two-pronged approach into two clear slides.
Prong — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary