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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

... The last particle of his nervous force had been expended in the wonders and agonies of this day full of surprising failures coming at the end of a harassing month of scheming and insomnia. He was tired. A man isn't made of stone. Hang everything! Mr Verloc reposed characteristically, clad in his outdoor garments. One side of his open overcoat was lying partly on the ground. Mr Verloc wallowed on his back. But he longed for a more perfect rest—for sleep—for a few hours of delicious forgetfulness. That would come ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... back to the house she was weary, but calm. Only hope seemed to have gone forever. There are melancholy days in which the sun has no color, and the clouds hang in dark masses, gray upon darker gray. Life has the same pallors and glooms; we are weary of ourselves and of others, we have the sensation of defeat upon defeat, of hopeless struggles, of mortal ...

— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr

... angle. Between the third and eighth years of growth every alternate shading-tree and coffee-plant is removed, as more space for development becomes necessary. The coffee-plants are pruned from time to time, and on no account should the branches be allowed to hang over and meet. Around the wealthy town of Lipa some of the many coffee-estates were extremely well kept up, with avenues crossing the ...

— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

... honourably buried in a marble tomb in one of the chapels of the church and on the morrow the folk began incontinent to come and burn candles and offer up prayers and make vows to him and hang images of wax[39] at his shrine, according to the promise made. Nay, on such wise waxed the frame of his sanctity and men's devotion to him that there was scarce any who, being in adversity, would vow himself to another saint than him; and they styled and yet style him Saint ...

— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... prosper in the voyage of life. But I believe you are more of an honest man, than to behave so much like a pirate. I beg, of all love, you wool take care of your constitution, and beware of running foul of harlots, who are no better than so many mermaids, that sit upon rocks in the sea, and hang out a fair face for the destruction of passengers; thof I must say, for my own part, I never met with any of those sweet singers, and yet I have gone to sea for the space of thirty years. But howsomever, steer your course clear of all such brimstone ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

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