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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

... omnipotent tyrant in the large heavens, only to be appeased by sacerdotal intervention, was fading back into those regions of night, whence the depth of human misery and the obscuration of human intelligence had once permitted its escape, to hang evilly over the western world for a season. So vital a change in the point of view quickly touched the theory and art of the upbringing of the young. Education began to figure less as the suppression of the natural man, than his strengthening ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... commandment, upon which hang all the Law and the Prophets; and it is like unto the first, and cannot be separated from it; for at the great day of recompense we shall be tried by these commandments, and our faithfulness unto the first will be seen and manifested by our faithfulness unto the last. Yea, by ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... people of England over their scattered transmarine dominions. It affords a convenient peg on which hostile critics, such as Mr. Mallik, whose work was reviewed last week in these columns,[99] as also those ultra-cosmopolitan Englishmen who are the friends of every country but their own, may hang partisan homilies dwelling on the brutality of conquest and on all the harsh features of alien rule, whilst they leave sedulously in the background that aspect of the case which Polybius, parodying a famous saying of Themistocles, embodied in a phrase which he attributes to the ...

— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... only knows how—and if any mortal did ever hang on the arm of Omnipotence, I did. I felt as if I were clinging to some human arm; but it was a Divine one which held me up. I just stood, and told the people how it had come about. I confessed, as I think everybody should who has been in the wrong, ...

— The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" • Minnie L. Carpenter

... were too close on its heels; but at the end of the long hot days, when the resplendent sun struck down on the glossy trees and the over-lush Maidan, there often stole through Calcutta a breath of the coming respite of December. The blue smoke of the people's cooking fires began to hang again in the streets, the pungent smell of it was pleasant in the still air. The south wind turned back at the Sunderbunds; instead of it, one met round corners a sudden crispness that stayed just long enough to be recognised and ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

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