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How to pronounce hang in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fall, flow


This dress hangs well.
Type Words
Synonyms advert, attend, give ear, pay heed
Type of listen
Has types fixate
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Synonyms hang up
Type of fix, secure, fasten
Has types sling, suspend
Derivation hanger, hanging
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Synonyms bent, knack
Type of talent, gift, endowment, natural endowment


he couldn't get the hang of it.
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Synonyms cling
Type of hold on, grasp


hang on to your father's hands.
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Synonyms string up
Type of execute, put to death
Has types halter, gibbet
Derivation hanging


The murderer was hanged on Friday.
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Type of gymnastic exercise
Has types bent hang, straight hang, inverted hang, lever hang, reverse hang
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Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum.
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Type of be
Has types loom, hover, bulk large, brood


This worry hangs on my mind.
The cloud of suspicion hangs over her.
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This cabinet door doesn't hang right!.
Type Words
Has types swing, beetle, dangle, drop, overhang
Verb group hang up
Derivation hanging
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Type of ornament, embellish, decorate, grace, adorn, beautify
Derivation hanging
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Type of drop
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Type of fasten, secure, fix


hang a door.
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Type of embarrass, block, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy, blockade
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Type of molder, decompose, rot, moulder


hang the venison for a few days.
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Type of fit


he adjusted the hang of his coat.
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Derivation hanging

Examples of hang

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He has a steady home, but he sought out Solomon's Porch for a place to hang out.
From the thenewstribune.com
A 20-year-old lifeguard who said Tameris would text her and ask her to hang out.
From the news-journalonline.com
Do what you can to relax, hang out with friends, and get your thoughts together.
From the sacbee.com
It has become something akin to the local bar in college where friends hang out.
From the gothamgal.com
I met Matt about 11 years ago when he came over to our house to hang a painting.
From the gothamgal.com
When they lost they were upset, but not a hang-your-head, get-discouraged upset.
From the dailyherald.com
Hillary Clinton was in New York, struggling to hang onto her lead and her voice.
From the time.com
Why a whole ground floor without any place to hang a picture or put a sculpture?
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The Jaguars build a lead and hang on for the victory over league rival Garfield.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Be suspended or hanging; "The flag hung on the wall"
  • Bent: a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it"
  • The way a garment hangs; "he adjusted the hang of his coat"
  • A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
  • Kill by hanging; "The murderer was hanged on Friday"
  • Let drop or droop; "Hang one's head in shame"
  • In computing, a hang or freeze occurs when either a single computer program or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. ...
  • The Hang (German pronunciation: , plural form: Hanghang) is a musical instrument in the idiophone class created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schu00E4rer in Bern, Switzerland. The name of their company is PANArt Hangbau AG. The Hang is sometimes referred to as a hang drum, but the inventors consider this a misnomer and strongly discourage its use.
  • Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", although it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging".