hang
- n a special way of doing something
he couldn't get the hang of it - n the way a garment hangs
he adjusted the hang of his coat - n a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- v be suspended or hanging
- v cause to be hanging or suspended
- v kill by hanging
The murderer was hanged on Friday - v let drop or droop
- v fall or flow in a certain way
This dress hangs well - v be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
This worry hangs on my mind
The cloud of suspicion hangs over her - v give heed (to)
- v be suspended or poised
- v hold on tightly or tenaciously
hang on to your father's hands - v be exhibited
Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum - v prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- v decorate or furnish with something suspended
- v be placed in position as by a hinge
This cabinet door doesn't hang right! - v place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
hang a door - v suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
hang the venison for a few days
hang glider
- n a rider of a hang glider
- n a glider resembling a large kite; the rider hangs from it while descending from a height
hang gliding
- n gliding in a hang glider
- v fly by means of a hang glider
hangar
- n a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained
hangchow
- n a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world
hanger
- n a worker who hangs something
- n anything from which something can be hung
hanks
- n United States film actor (born in 1956)
- n a coil of rope or wool or yarn
hanging
- n decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
the cold castle walls were covered with hangings - n a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment - n the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait - v be suspended or hanging
- v cause to be hanging or suspended
- v kill by hanging
- v let drop or droop
- v fall or flow in a certain way
- v be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- v give heed (to)
- v be suspended or poised
- v hold on tightly or tenaciously
- v be exhibited
- v prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- v decorate or furnish with something suspended
- v be placed in position as by a hinge
- v place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
- v suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
hanging chad
- n a chad that is incompletely removed and hanging by one corner