hanging

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æŋɪŋ

Verb

hanging

1. Present participle of hang.

Adjective

hanging (not comparable)

1. Suspended.

   The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.

2. (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.

Derived terms

• hanging garden
• hanging loop
• hanging participle

Translations

suspended

• Dutch: hangend, hangende
• Finnish: roikkuva
• French: suspendu (fr) m, suspendue (fr) f
• German: hängend (de)
• Greek: αναρτημένος (anartimenos) m, κρεμάμενος (kremamenos) m, κρεμαστός (kremastos) m

• Italian: sospeso (it) m, sospesa (it) f
• Maori: tautau (mi)
• Russian: висячий (ru) (visjáčij), висящий (ru) (visjáščij)
• Spanish: suspendido (es), colgando (es), colgante (es)
• Swedish: hängande (sv)

Noun

Wikipedia hanging (countable and uncountable; plural hangings)

1. (uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide).
   • 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway^[1], volume 2, page 37:

     No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?

   Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.

2. (countable) A public event at which a person is hanged.

   The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.

3. (countable) Anything wide, high and rather thin that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, wallpaper or posters).

   The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.

4. (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.

   I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.

Synonyms

• (execution): a quick drop and a sudden stop

Derived terms

• wall hanging

Translations

means of execution

• Arabic: شنق (ar) (shanq) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縊死 (cmn), 缢死 (cmn) (yìsǐ), 絞刑 (cmn), 绞刑 (cmn) (jiǎoxíng), 吊死 (cmn) (diàosǐ)

• Dutch: verhanging f, verhangen n
• Esperanto: pendumo (eo)
• Finnish: hirttäminen (fi), hirtto (fi)
• French: pendaison (fr) f
• German: Erhängung (de) f
• Greek: απαγχονισμός (el) (apanchonismόs) m
• Hungarian: akasztás (hu)

• Icelandic: henging (is) f
• Italian: impiccagione (it)
• Japanese: 絞首刑 (ja) (こうしゅけい, kōshukei), 絞殺刑 (ja) (こうさつけい, kōsatsukei)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خنکاندن (ku) (xinkandin)

• Latvian: kāršana (lv) f, pakāršana (lv) f
• Lithuanian: korimas (lt) m, pakorimas (lt) m
• Persian: اعدام کردن (fa) (e'dâm kardan), دار زدن (fa) (dâr zadan)
• Russian: повешение (ru) (povéšenije) n
• Swedish: hängning (sv) c, galgen (sv)

public event at which a person is hanged

• Dutch: verhanging f
• Esperanto: pendumo (eo)
• Finnish: hirttäjäiset
• French: pendaison (fr) f

• German: Erhängung (de) f
• Greek: απαγχονισμός (el) (apanchonismόs) m
• Russian: повешение (ru) (povéšenije) n
• Swedish: hängning (sv) c

anything wide, high and thin that is hung

• Dutch: behang (nl) n
• German: Behang m

• Swedish: hänge (sv) n

way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged

• German: Hängung f

• Greek: κρεμαστά (el) (kremasta)

See also

• portière, portiere