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hangar
  • n  a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained
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hangchow
  • n  a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world
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hanger
  • n  a worker who hangs something
  • n  anything from which something can be hung
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hanger-on
  • n  someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along
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hanks
  • n  United States film actor (born in 1956)
  • n  a coil of rope or wool or yarn
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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
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hanging chad
  • n  a chad that is incompletely removed and hanging by one corner
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hanging fly
  • n  any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae
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hanging gardens of babylon
  • n  a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC
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hanging geranium
  • n  a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
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