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dangled
English
Verb
dangled
- simple past tense and past participle of dangle
Anagrams
- Gladden, gladden
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dangle
English
Etymology
Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dæ?.??l/
- Rhymes: -æ???l
Verb
dangle (third-person singular simple present dangles, present participle dangling, simple past and past participle dangled)
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
- From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
- (intransitive, dated) To trail or follow around.
- 1833, Miller's Modern Acting Drama
- To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
- 1833, Miller's Modern Acting Drama
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- 1976, R. Winifred Heyward Johnson, Douglass W. Johnson, Introduction to Nursing Care (page 139)
- Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]
- 2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now
- [P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.
- 1976, R. Winifred Heyward Johnson, Douglass W. Johnson, Introduction to Nursing Care (page 139)
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- 2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now
- Using proper body mechanics for dangling a patient at the side of the bed.
- 2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now
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Translations
Noun
dangle (plural dangles)
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
Anagrams
- Glenda, angled, geland, gladen
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