The meaning of Hanging

noun

A piece of material suspended at the top to form a screen, typically movable sideways along a rail and found as one of a pair at a window.

Usage examples:

She drew the curtains and lit the fire

verb

Provide with a curtain or curtains.

Usage examples:

Is it ok if we only curtain the lower windows?

verb

Hang or swing loosely.

Usage examples:

Saucepans dangled from a rail

verb

To hang loosely, or to cause something to hang

Usage examples:

[ i ] a loose wire was dangling from the wall., [ t ] he dangled the puppet in front her.

verb

Be controlled or determined by.

Usage examples:

Differences in earnings depended on a wide variety of factors

verb

To be influenced or determined by something else

Usage examples:

All of this depends on how the test is constructed., “do you eat out at lunchtime?” “well, it depen…

noun

An ornamental cloth hung behind an altar in a church or at the sides of a chancel.

Usage examples:

Another work with petrine iconography is a thirteenth-century dossal for, most likely, the little f…

verb

Arrange (cloth or clothing) loosely or casually on or round something.

Usage examples:

She draped a shawl around her shoulders

noun

Long curtains.

Usage examples:

Katherine pulled back the heavy velvet drapes

verb

The manner in which fabric hangs or falls

noun

Cloth, curtains, or clothing hanging in loose folds.

Usage examples:

The hall of the school was hung with green drapery

verb

Be carried slowly by a current of air or water.

Usage examples:

The cabin cruiser started to drift downstream

noun

A continuous slow movement from one place to another.

Usage examples:

There was a drift to the towns

verb

Let or make (something) fall vertically.

Usage examples:

The fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette

noun

A small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.

Usage examples:

The first drops of rain splashed on the ground

verb

Let fall to the ground

verb

Rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.

Usage examples:

She relaxed, floating gently in the water

noun

A thing that is buoyant in water.

Usage examples:

Eventually the many rings were threaded, the float attached, shotted and the hook tied on.

verb

Be on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

adjective

Of, at, or directed at the front.

Usage examples:

A frontal assault on the maginot line

noun

A decorative cloth for covering the front of an altar.

Usage examples:

Also on show is the minster's great processional banner, which is only used at the most important s…

adjective

At, from, or toward the front

Usage examples:

A frontal attack/assault

noun

A gallows.

Usage examples:

A keen historian he also spent considerable time searching for items of historical interest and eve…

verb

Hang up (a body) on a gibbet.

Usage examples:

Hangings were public affairs and sometimes the bodies were gibbeted - left on the noose after death…

noun

A wooden structure from which criminals were hanged, in the past, as a form of execution (= killing as a punishment)

verb

Remain in one place in the air.

Usage examples:

Army helicopters hovered overhead

noun

An act of remaining in the air in one place.

Usage examples:

Keep the model in a stable hover

verb

Hang in the air; fly or be suspended above

verb

Stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave.

Usage examples:

She lingered in the yard, enjoying the warm sunshine

verb

To take longer than usual to leave or disappear

Usage examples:

We went to small cafes where we could linger over cappuccino., the smell lingered in the kitchen fo…

verb

(of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.

Usage examples:

Her father had been lynched for a crime he didn't commit

verb

(of a group of people) to kill someone who has not been found guilty of a crime at a legal trial, esp. by hanging (= killed using a rope around the neck)

verb

Move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backwards and forwards or from side to side.

Usage examples:

He swayed slightly on his feet

noun

A rhythmical movement from side to side.

Usage examples:

The easy sway of her hips

verb

Move back and forth

verb

Move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis.

Usage examples:

Her long black skirt swung about her legs

noun

A seat suspended by ropes or chains, on which someone may sit and swing back and forth.

Usage examples:

The chains that had been holding the seat of the swing up were still sticking straight out.

verb

Change direction with a swinging motion; turn

noun

A small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold, fasten, or manipulate it, or for identification and information.

Usage examples:

The shopkeeper undid the clasp binding the date book closed and heaved it open, revealing a binder …

verb

Short for tableau curtains.

verb

Use the tab key on a computer or typewriter keyboard.

Usage examples:

The user can tab to the phrase and press enter