What is the difference between hang and sky?
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(lb) To be or remain suspended.
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*:On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.
(lb) To float, as if suspended.
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(lb) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
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(lb) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger or the like.
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::It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 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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To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
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(lb) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
(lb) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
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(lb) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
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To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
*1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine , Ch.X:
*:Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking.
To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard or mouse.
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To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
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To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
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To be vulnerable to capture.
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The way in which something hangs.
(figuratively) A grip, understanding
(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
(Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
(lb) A cloud.
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
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The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky .
Heaven.
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(sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
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(colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
* The Century
(colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container
As verbs the difference between hang and sky
is that hang is (intransitive) to be or remain suspended while sky is (sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.As nouns the difference between hang and sky
is that hang is the way in which something hangs or hang can be {{context|ireland|informal|derogatory|lang=en}} cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches while sky is (obsolete) a cloud.hang
English
(wikipedia hang)Etymology 1
A fusion of (etyl) .Verb
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Synonyms
* (be or remain suspended) be suspended, dangle * (float as if suspended) float, hover * lynch, string up * (be executed) go to the gallows, swing (informal) * (loiter) hang about, hang around, loiter * freeze, lock up * suspend * (hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect) drop, lower * (to place on a hook) hook, hook up * (exhibit) exhibit, show * put up * bedeck, deck, decorate * freeze, lock up * *Usage notes
* Formerly, at least through the 16th century, the past tense of the transitive use of (term) was (hanged) (see quote from King James Bible, above). This form is retained for the legal senses "to be executed by suspension from the neck" and "to execute by suspension from the neck" and (hung) for all other meanings. However, this rule is not uniformly understood or observed. (term) is sometimes substituted for (term), which would be considered inappropriate in legal or other formal writing (for the applicable senses only) or, more rarely, vice versa . See also – in Old English there were separate words for transitive (whence (term)) and intransitive (whence (term)).Derived terms
* behang * hang a left * hang a right * hang about * hang around * hang back * hangdog * * hanger * hang fire * hang-glider * hang in * hang in the balance * hang in there * hanging * hang it * hangman * hangnail * hang off * hang on * hang onto * hang out * hang out to dry * hang-out, hangout * hangover * hang ten * hang together * hang tough * hang up * hang-up, hangup * I'll be hanged * leave hanging * overhang * underhangNoun
(en noun)- ''This skirt has a nice hang .
- ''He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations
- ''We sometimes get system hangs .
Derived terms
* get the hang ofEtymology 2
From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of (term) sandwich.Noun
(-)Etymology 3
sky
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Alternative forms
* skie (obsolete)Noun
(skies)Usage notes
Usually the word can be used correctly in either the singular or plural form, but the plural is now mainly poetic.Synonyms
* firmament * heaven *Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
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- Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.