1. Be suspended from above
   "The flag hung on the wall"
    
2. Cause to be hanging or suspended
   "Hang that picture on the wall"; "hang up that picture on the wall";
   - hang up
    
3. Let drop or droop
   "Hang one's head in shame"
    
4. Be suspended or poised
   "Heavy fog hung over the valley"
    
5. Be placed in position as by a hinge
   "This cabinet door doesn't hang right!"
    
6. Place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
   "hang a door"
    
7. Fall or flow in a certain way
   "This dress hangs well";
   - fall, flow
    
8. Decorate or furnish with something suspended
   "Hang wallpaper"
    
9. Hold on tightly or tenaciously
   "hang on to your father's hands";
   - cling
    
10. Be exhibited
    "Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum"
     
11. Be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
    "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"
     
12. Give heed (to)
    "She hung on his every word";
    - attend, advert [rare], pay heed, give ear [archaic]
     
13. Prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
    "The controversial evidence hung the jury, forcing a mistrial"
     
14. Suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
    "hang the venison for a few days"
     
15. (of a computer) stop responding to input devices such as keyboard or mouse
    "when I press return the computer hangs"

1. The way a garment hangs
   "he adjusted the hang of his coat"
    
2. A special way of doing something
   "he couldn't get the hang of it";
   - bent, knack
    
3. A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
   "She demonstrated excellent control during the hang on the uneven bars"

1. Exclamation of annoyance
   "hang ...They won't stop me from having what I want"";
   - blast, bother [Brit], botheration, bummer [informal], curses, dang [N. Amer, informal], damn, damnation, dammit [informal], damn it [informal], darn [informal], dash [Brit, informal], deuce [informal], durn [US, dialect], drat [informal], sugar [informal], tarnation [N. Amer, informal], shoot [N. Amer, informal]

1. Kill by hanging
   "The condemned man will hang at dawn";
   - string up

Derived forms: hung, hanging, hanged, hangs

Type of: adorn, appear, be, beautify, block, blockade, come out, concern, decompose, decorate, drop, embarrass [archaic], embellish, endowment, execute, fancify, fasten, fit, fix, gift, go, grace, grasp, gymnastic exercise, hinder, hold on, interest, listen, locomote, molder [N. Amer], moulder [Brit, Cdn], move, natural endowment, obstruct, occupy, ornament, put to death, rot, secure, stymie, stymy [rare], talent, travel, worry

Encyclopedia: Hang