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Hang can be a verb or a noun.
hang used as a verb:
- To be or remain suspended.
"The lights hung from the ceiling." - To float, as if suspended.
"The smoke hung in the room." - To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
"He hung his head in shame." - To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger or the like.
"Hang those lights from the ceiling." - To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
"The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree." - 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." - To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
"Are you busy, or can you hang with me?" - To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard or mouse.
"The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works." - To exhibit (an object).
- To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
"Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery" - To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
"The program has a bug that can hang the system." - To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
"If you move there, you'll hang your queen rook." - To be vulnerable to capture.
"In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
hang used as a noun:
- The way in which something hangs.
"This skirt has a nice hang." - A grip, understanding
"He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations" - An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
"We sometimes get system hangs." - Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is hang?
- Verb usage: The lights hung from the ceiling.
- Verb usage: The smoke hung in the room.
- Verb usage: He hung his head in shame.
- Verb usage: Hang those lights from the ceiling.
- Verb usage: The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.
- Verb usage: You will hang for this, my friend.
- Verb usage: Are you busy, or can you hang with me?
- Verb usage: I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.
- Verb usage: The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works.
- Verb usage: When I push this button the program hangs.
- Verb usage: Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery
- Verb usage: The program has a bug that can hang the system.
- Verb usage: If you move there, you'll hang your queen rook.
- Verb usage: In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.
- Noun usage: This skirt has a nice hang.
- Noun usage: He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations
- Noun usage: We sometimes get system hangs.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hang are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of hang, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).