Word Finder - hangs

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To be or remain suspended.

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The lights hung from the ceiling.

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To float, as if suspended.

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The smoke hung in the room.

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(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.

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To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

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He hung his head in shame.

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To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like.

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Hang those lights from the ceiling.

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To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.

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The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.

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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.

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You will hang for this, my friend.

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(used in maledictions) To damn.

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To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.

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Are you busy, or can you hang with me?  I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.

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To exhibit (an object) by hanging.

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To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

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Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.

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To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

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Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.

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To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

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To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.

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One obstinate juror can hang a jury.

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To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.

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The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works.  When I push this button the program hangs.

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To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

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The program has a bug that can hang the system.

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To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

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If you move there, you'll hang your rook.

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To be vulnerable to capture.

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In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.

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Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.

It hangs from the rooftops like daggers nearly touching the ground.

Many of the gumtrees throw off their bark, so that it hangs in long dry strips from the trunk and branches, a feature familiar in " bush " pictures.

It hangs in my room over a portrait the original of which no one here has seen.

The root is made to press its way into the darker cracks and crannies of the soil, so bringing its root-hairs into better contact with the particles round which the hygroscopic water hangs.

The common form of non-automatic coupler, used in Great Britain for goods wagons, consists of a chain and hook; the chain hangs loosely from a slot in the draw-bar, which terminates in a hook, and coupling is effected by slipping the =chain of one vehicle over the hook of the next.

But the pupa hangs from the surface by means of paired respiratory trumpets on the prothorax, the dorsal thoracic surface, where the cuticle splits to allow the emergence of the fly, being thus directed towards the upper air.

A very similar sheet is spun by a species of Linyphia, one of the Argyopidae, but in this case there is no tube connected with the web and the spider hangs suspended beneath the horizontal netting.

Superiorly the sheath either closely adheres to the muscular bodywall, with which it may even be partly interwoven, or it hangs freely in the connective tissue which fills the space between the intestine and the muscular body-wall.

The disturbing life already appears in Der fliegende Hollander, at the point where Senta's father enters with the Dutchman, and Senta (who is already in an advanced state of Schwarmerei over the legend of the Flying Dutchman) stands rooted to the spot, comparing the living Dutchman with his portrait which hangs over the door.

The hair on the lower jaw, throat and chest is long and straight, and hangs down like a beard or dewlap, though there is no loose fold of skin in this situation.

Its situation, general plan and literary associations suggested a comparison that gave Edinburgh the name of " the modern Athens "; but it has a homelier nickname of " Auld Reekie," from the cloud of smoke (reek) which often hangs over the low-lying quarters.

Whatever doubt hangs over the details of the story, it seems clear that the earl made a promise to support the claims of his host upon the English succession.

Nevertheless veils were not usually worn out of doors, the countrywoman of to-day is not veiled, and it is uncertain whether there is any early parallel for the yashmak, the narrow strip which covers the face below the eyes and hangs down to the feet.

It must suffice, therefore, to record the Pharaoh's simple girdle (with or without a tunic) from which hangs the lion's tail, or the tail-like band suspended from the extremity of his head-dress (above), or the panther or leopard skin worn over the shoulders by the high priest at Memphis, subsequently a ceremonial dress of men of rank.

Let a metal ball be suspended by a silk thread, and the canister lid so fixed to the thread that when the lid is in place the ball hangs in the centre of the canister.

From one of them hangs a legend which relates that they were an offering to a church, which has been identified with much probability as that of Sorbas, a small town in the province of Almeria.

Fish are so abundant on the coast that the cod is sometimes used as an emblem of the state; thus a figure of one hangs in the representatives' chamber at the State House.

It has three entrances on the Plaza, and over its main gateway hangs the " liberty bell " of Mexico, first rung by the humble parish priest Hidalgo, on the night of the 16th of September 1810, to call the people of Dolores to arms, and now rung at midnight on each recurring anniversary by the president himself.

The fascination which hangs around the latter has well-nigh obscured the former.

In the case of bishops, however, the stole always hangs straight down; while priests wear it crossed over the breast when vested in the alb.

In any case a divine origin would naturally be claimed for him as a priest-king, and a divine atmosphere hangs about him.

From the centre of the subumbral surface hangs down the manubrium, like the handle of an umbrella or the clapper of a bell, bearing the mouth at its extremity.

The prosperity of Ahmedabad, says a native proverb, hangs on three threads - silk, gold and cotton; and though its manufactures are on a smaller scale than formerly, they are still moderately flourishing.

There is a considerable import of coal, cotton, iron and breadstuffs, the chief exports being butter, fish, timber and wood pulp. During the period of emigration, owing to political troubles with Russia, over 12,000 Finns sailed from Hangs in a single year (1901), mostly for the United States and Canada.

Hangs now takes front rank as a fashionable watering-place, especially for wealthy Russians, having a dry climate and a fine strand.

When the leaf hangs down it resembles the foot of a bird, and hence the name.

The facade dates from 1278, and the interior of the edifice dates in the main from 1543 In the crypt is the tomb of Andrea Doria by Montorsoli, and above the main altar hangs the dagger presented to the doge by Pope Paul III.

This is a simple breadth of muslin, which passes over the head and hangs down behind, one side, being drawn forward over the face in the presence of a man.

He had their respect, if not their love; he is the hero of a thousand ballads; and his portrait still hangs among the ikons in the cottages of the Greek mountaineers.

Over the anga is sometimes worn an overcoat called a choga; this is made of any material, thick or thin, plain or ornamented; it has one or two fastenings only, loops below the breast whence it hangs loosely to below the knees.

It is worn over the left shoulder and hangs down to the right hip. It is of three strands till the wearer is married, when it becomes six or nine.

In towns the sari is not passed between the legs, but hangs in loose folds so as to hide the trousers.

Again, if a chain pass over a perfectly smooth peg, the catenaries in which it hangs on the two sides, though usually of different parameters, wifi have the same directrix, since by (10) y is the same for both at the peg.

The vertical oscifiations of a weight which hangs from a fixed point by a spiral spring come under this case.

A mass M hangs from a fixed point by a string of length a, and a second mass m hangs from M by a string of length b.

In front of the altar hangs a curious piece of wood-carving by Veit Stoss, representing the Salutation.

And although no single feature of the book is Gre'ek, there hangs round it a moral fragrance only to be called forth by one who had fulfilled the vow of his youth, and learnt to breathe, as purely as on "the double summit of Parnassus," the very essence of the antique.

This original manuscript is now lost, whereby hangs a tale.

But, even granting that a certain obscurity still hangs undispelled over the problem of the old Avesta, with its twenty-one nasks, we may well believe the Parsees themselves, when they affirm that their sacred literature has passed through successive stages of decay, the last of which is represented by the present Avesta.

The pull of the load is transmitted to a hook which hangs freely from the middle of a horizontal bar below the drum casing.

As they revolve these brushes engage the tea in the hopper, draw it out by degrees, and drop it into a compartment of a circular drum which hangs on one end is placed in the weights-pan of the balance, and is the only loose weight used with the machine.

M, The water - pore, leading by the stone - canal stc to the waterring, from which hangs a Polian vesicle pb.

A portrait of Flamsteed, painted by Thomas Gibson in 1712, hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society.

In the main hall hangs a glass casket containing the key to the Bastille which Washington received from Lafayette in 1790.

The spathe protects the flowers in their young state, and often falls off after they are developed, or hangs down From Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik, by permission of Gustav Fischer.

The sporangium is attached to the enlarged distal end of its pedicel, from which it hangs down, so as to suggest an anatropous ovule on its funiculus.

Lady Thatcher is now armigerous; her heraldic banner hangs in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

Find out what the crazy coots are up to and who hangs out with a mallard.

The specter of civil war still hangs over the nation, and Iraq has become a crucible of militant terrorism.

Our eternal destiny hangs on how we react to him.