hang
To be or remain suspended.
Verb 4 meanings
To be or remain suspended.
“The lights hung from the ceiling.”
To float, as if suspended.
“The smoke hung in the room.”
To veer in one direction.
To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
Noun 4 meanings
The way in which something hangs.
“This skirt has a nice hang.”
A mass of hanging material.
A slackening of motion.
A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
Etymology
From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, transitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, intransitive verb), respectively from the transitive verb Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and the intransitive verb *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną and *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”).
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HANG at a glance
HANG has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,431 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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