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Hanging
Definitions
- 1 Suspended. not-comparable
"The hanging vines made the house look older than it was."
- 2 Unprotected and exposed to capture. not-comparable
- 3 Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit. not-comparable, slang
"hanging breaking ball"
- 4 Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting. UK, not-comparable, slang
"MUGSEY: Yeah. You fancy ‘im don’ you. LEANNE: No I don’t. Shut yer mouth. MUGSEY: Your mum said he’s gonna end up just like his dad. LEANNE: She don’ even know Bingo. Anyway, I don’t fancy ‘im, ‘e’s hanging."
- 5 Extending beyond the margins of a page. not-comparable
"hanging punctuation"
- 1 The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide). countable, uncountable
"Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there."
- 2 the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) wordnet
- 3 Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters). countable
"The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice."
- 4 a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead wordnet
- 5 The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged. uncountable
"I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters."
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- 6 decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of hang form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang + -ing. Compare Old English hengen (“hanging”) and hōhing (“hanging”).
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