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Hang   /hæŋ/   Listen
Hang

verb
(past & past part. hung; pres. part. hanging)
1.
Be suspended or hanging.
2.
Cause to be hanging or suspended.  Synonym: hang up.
3.
Kill by hanging.  Synonym: string up.
4.
Let drop or droop.
5.
Fall or flow in a certain way.  Synonyms: fall, flow.  "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
6.
Be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive.  "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"
7.
Give heed (to).  Synonyms: advert, attend, give ear, pay heed.  "She hung on his every word" , "They attended to everything he said"
8.
Be suspended or poised.
9.
Hold on tightly or tenaciously.  Synonym: cling.  "The child clung to his mother's apron"
10.
Be exhibited.
11.
Prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury.
12.
Decorate or furnish with something suspended.
13.
Be placed in position as by a hinge.
14.
Place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction.
15.
Suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste.
noun
1.
A special way of doing something.  Synonyms: bent, knack.  "He had a special knack for getting into trouble" , "He couldn't get the hang of it"
2.
The way a garment hangs.
3.
A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms.



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"Hang" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind how the case is altered with thee, touching thy confidence in God for thy future happiness, how uncertain thou now art of thy hopes for heaven, how much this life doth hang in doubt before ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... cinch," chuckled the other, quickly. "You fellows just hang out here, and let me get busy. Oh! what a chance it looks like to try my little game of tag. Talk to me about baseball! Why, it won't be in the same class with what we'll do to the other fellows, if they give us half a chance! Oh! me, oh! my! ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour - The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain • George A. Warren

... this trifling beauty? Hast thou forgot thy wondrous art of loving? Thy pretty cunnings, and thy soft deceivings? Hast thou forgot them all? Or hast thou forgot indeed to love at all? Has thy industrious passion gathered all the sweets, and left the rifled flower to hang its withered head, and die in I shades neglected? For who will prize it now, now when all its I perfumes are fled? Oh my Philander, oh my charming fugitive! Was it not enough you left me, like false Theseus, ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn

... gasped out that she was glad, and wouldn't he come in. She held out her hand to him, politely, and he, compensating for an imperceptible hesitation with a kind of clumsy haste, took it and released it almost as hastily. She showed him where to hang his coat and hat, conducted him into her sitting-room and invited him to sit ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... present berth, the rending and cracking of the ice sensibly diminishing, as the two floes came closer and closer together. Nor was this all: it was soon very obvious that the inner field was drifting, with an increased motion, into the bay, while the larger, or outer floe, seemed to hang, from some cause or other. Of the fact there was soon no doubt, the fissure beginning to open, as slowly and steadily as it had closed, but noiselessly, and without any rending ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper


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