hang
IPA: hˈæŋ
noun
- The way in which something hangs.
- A mass of hanging material.
- A slackening of motion.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
- (colloquial)
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- A hangout.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A musical instrument consisting of two metal half shells with tuned notes on the top side that produces a mellow and ethereal sound.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”) [A musical instrument consisting of two metal half shells with tuned notes on the top side that produces a mellow and ethereal sound.]
verb
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
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Examples of "hang" in Sentences
- "No, papa; not hang them -- but _hang on_ to them!"
- Elaina let the word hang there without adding the rest.
- “Jilly’s got a tat,” Jamal said, letting the word hang in the air.
- He let the word hang in the air for a moment, waiting for the dead flesh and old hides to cover it and give it form.
- “The aim of philosophy,” he wrote, “is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term” (PSIM, 37).
- If philosophy is the attempt “to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”, as Sellars (1962) put it, philosophy should not ignore technology.
- It is hard to under-emphasize how deeply this picture of how we come to understand the world has rooted itself in European and North American culture and it has encouraged us all, since birth, to think almost exclusively that the appropriate way to proceed in all human endeavours is to "understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term" (ibid p. 235).
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