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hang

See also: Hang, háng, hàng, Háng, hāng, häng, hǎng, and hạng

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

A fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”) [intrans.] and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”) [trans.]; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“suspend”) and hanga (“be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną (compare Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”) (compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite [Term?] (/gang-/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cunctari (“to delay”)).

VerbEdit

hang (third-person singular simple present hangs, present participle hanging, simple past and past participle hung or (legal) hanged)

  1. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
    The lights hung from the ceiling.
    • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0111:
      On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.
  2. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
    The smoke hung in the room.
  3. (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
    • 1979, New South Wales law reports (page 16)
      The jockey claimed that the horse hung towards the outside
  4. (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.
  5. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
    He hung his head in shame.
  6. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
    Hang those lights from the ceiling.
    to hang a door
    It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
  7. (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
    The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
  8. (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.
    You will hang for this, my friend.
  9. (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 11:
      [H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
  10. (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
    I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.
    • 2006, Scuba Diving (issues 1-6, page 49)
      He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.
  11. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
  12. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
    Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.
  13. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
    Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.
  14. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Ch.X:
      Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking.
  15. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
    One obstinate juror can hang a jury.
  16. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.
    The computer has hung again. Not even pressing <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Del> works.
    When I push this button the program hangs.
  17. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
    The program has a bug that can hang the system.
  18. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
    If you move there, you'll hang your rook.
  19. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
    In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.
  20. (transitive, baseball, slang) Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
    • 2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, →ISBN, page 409
      McDougald then singled, and with a 3-2 count on Ellie Howard who was playing first base, Spahn hung a curve ball and Howard hit it over the wire fence in left field for a 4-4 tie.
  21. (transitive, figuratively) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
    • 1848, The American Pulpit (volume 3, page 120)
      There were no whisperings, even from his opponents, that he was no better than he ought to be. Because, there was nothing wrong on which to hang a charge. As an eloquent orator, he carried with him the firm support of a good name.
    • 1989 Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin 1989, →ISBN, page 2
      Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.
Usage notesEdit
  • Formerly, at least until the 16th century, the past tense of the transitive use of hang was hanged (see quote from King James Bible, above). This form is retained for the legal senses “to be executed by suspension from the neck” and “to execute by suspension from the neck”, with hung used for all other meanings. hung is sometimes also used in the legal senses, but is proscribed in legal or other formal writing (for those senses). Rarely, hanged is used for non-legal senses as well, which is also proscribed. Either hanged or hung can be used for suicidal hangings, with hung being slightly more common. See also the etymology.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from hang (verb)
TranslationsEdit
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NounEdit

hang (plural hangs)

  1. The way in which something hangs.
    This skirt has a nice hang.
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
    He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
    • 1911, Alexander MacDonald, The Invisible Island: A Story of the Far North of Queensland (page 105)
      “I don't see the hang of so much talky-talky,” broke in Uncle Sam. “We've heard all that can be said about things, […]
  3. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
    We sometimes get system hangs.
  4. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
  5. A mass of hanging material.
    • 2014, Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim (volume 1)
      They advanced in a crouch, dropping to their knees every few yards to pass under a hang of rock.
  6. (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
    I don't give a hang.
    They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of ham sandwich.

NounEdit

hang (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

Etymology 3Edit

 
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NounEdit

hang

  1. Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch hangen, a merger of Middle Dutch hangen and haen.

VerbEdit

hang (present hang, present participle hangende, past participle gehang)

  1. (transitive and intransitive) to hang

Etymology 2Edit

From Dutch hang.

NounEdit

hang (plural hange)

  1. slope
SynonymsEdit

BahnarEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Central Bahnaric *haːŋ, from Chamic. Compare Eastern Cham ꨨꩃ (hang).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hang 

  1. bank, shore

CebuanoEdit

Alternative formsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

hang

  1. hot; pungent; spicy

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): [ˈhɑŋˀ]

Etymology 1Edit

From German Hang, a noun derived from hangen, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną.

NounEdit

hang c (singular definite hangen, not used in plural form)

  1. inclination or disposition towards something
    Manden har hang til raseri.
    The man is disposed towards rage.

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

hang

  1. past tense of hænge

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hang c (plural hangen, diminutive hangetje n)

  1. A support for hanging objects, such as a nail for a picture frame
  2. A place to dry or smoke produce
  3. A tendency, knack

Related termsEdit

VerbEdit

hang

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hangen
  2. imperative of hangen

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Finnish hanko.

NounEdit

hang (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. fork

DeclensionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further readingEdit

  • hang in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From an unattested stem with the suffix -g.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hang (plural hangok)

  1. voice
    felemeli a hangját ― to raise one's voice
  2. sound
    lépések hangja ― the sound of footsteps

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hang hangok
accusative hangot hangokat
dative hangnak hangoknak
instrumental hanggal hangokkal
causal-final hangért hangokért
translative hanggá hangokká
terminative hangig hangokig
essive-formal hangként hangokként
essive-modal — —
inessive hangban hangokban
superessive hangon hangokon
adessive hangnál hangoknál
illative hangba hangokba
sublative hangra hangokra
allative hanghoz hangokhoz
elative hangból hangokból
delative hangról hangokról
ablative hangtól hangoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		hangé hangoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		hangéi hangokéi
Possessive forms of hang
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hangom hangjaim
2nd person sing. hangod hangjaid
3rd person sing. hangja hangjai
1st person plural hangunk hangjaink
2nd person plural hangotok hangjaitok
3rd person plural hangjuk hangjaik

Derived termsEdit

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

Further readingEdit

  • hang in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

IrishEdit

NounEdit

hang f

  1. h-prothesized form of ang

ItalianEdit

 
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NounEdit

hang m (invariable)

  1. (music) Hang

MalayEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /häŋ/

PronounEdit

hang (Jawi spelling هڠ‎)

  1. (dialectal) (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
  2. (dialectal) (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject.

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

hang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of háng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hàng.

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

hang

  1. (intransitive) simple past of henge

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

hang

  1. past of henga

TernateEdit

AdverbEdit

hang

  1. not yet

ReferencesEdit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

VietnameseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Vietic *haːŋ (“cave”). Possibly related to the word reconstructed as Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔaaŋ (“to open”) by Shorto (2006).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

(classifier cái) hang • (𡎟, 𥧎, 𧯄, 𧯅, 𪨝)

  1. cave
    Synonym: động
  2. den

Usage notesEdit

  • There seems to be little consistency on which between hang or động would be used in cave names (for examples, hang Sơn Đoòng, but động Phong Nha). In some cases, both can be seen used.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms
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