different between hang vs limp

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?ng, IPA^(key): /hæ?/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [he??]
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

A fusion of Old English h?n (“to hang, be hanging”) [intrans.] and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”) [trans.]; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“suspend”) and hanga (“be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhan? (compare Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga), from Proto-Indo-European *?enk- (“to waver, be in suspense”) (compare Gothic ???????????????????? (h?han), Hittite [Term?] (/gang-/, “to hang”), Sanskrit ?????? (?á?kate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cunctari (“to delay”)).

Verb

hang (third-person singular simple present hangs, present participle hanging, simple past and past participle hung or (legal) hanged)

1. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.

   • On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.

2. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.

3. (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
   • 1979, New South Wales law reports (page 16)

     The jockey claimed that the horse hung towards the outside

4. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
5. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

6. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.

   It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

7. (transitive, law) To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
8. (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.

9. (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
10. (intransitive, informal) To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.

11. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
12. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

13. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

14. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Ch.X:

      Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking.

15. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.

    One obstinate juror can hang a jury.

16. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.

17. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

18. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

19. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.

20. (transitive, baseball, slang) Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
    • 2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, ?ISBN, page 409

      McDougald then singled, and with a 3-2 count on Ellie Howard who was playing first base, Spahn hung a curve ball and Howard hit it over the wire fence in left field for a 4-4 tie.

21. (transitive, figuratively) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
    • 1848, The American Pulpit (volume 3, page 120)

      There were no whisperings, even from his opponents, that he was no better than he ought to be. Because, there was nothing wrong on which to hang a charge. As an eloquent orator, he carried with him the firm support of a good name.

Usage notes

• Formerly, at least until the 16th century, the past tense of the transitive use of hang was hanged (see quote from King James Bible, above). This form is retained for the legal senses “to be executed by suspension from the neck” and “to execute by suspension from the neck” and hung for all other meanings. hung is sometimes also used in the legal senses, but is proscribed in legal or other formal writing (for the applicable senses only). Rarely, hanged is used for non-legal senses as well, which is also proscribed. See also the etymology.

Synonyms

• (be or remain suspended): be suspended, dangle
• (float as if suspended): float, hover
• (execute (someone) by suspension from the neck): lynch, string up; see also Thesaurus:kill by hanging
• (be executed): go to the gallows, swing (informal), take a ride to Tyburn (archaic); see also Thesaurus:die by hanging
• (loiter): hang about, hang around, loiter
• (computing: stop responding): freeze, lock up
• (cause (something) to be suspended): suspend
• (hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect): drop, lower
• (to place on a hook): hook, hook up
• (to put a telephone handset back on a hook): hang up
• (exhibit): exhibit, show
• (apply (wallpaper to a wall)): put up
• (decorate (something) with hanging objects): bedeck, deck, decorate
• (computing: cause (a program or computer) to stop responding): freeze, lock up
• (in chess: cause to become vulnerable to capture):
• (in chess: be vulnerable to capture):

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hang (plural hangs)

1. The way in which something hangs.

   This skirt has a nice hang.

2. (colloquial, figuratively) A grip, understanding.

   He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.

   • 1911, Alexander MacDonald, The Invisible Island: A Story of the Far North of Queensland (page 105)

     “I don't see the hang of so much talky-talky,” broke in Uncle Sam. “We've heard all that can be said about things, […]

3. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.

   We sometimes get system hangs.

4. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
5. A mass of hanging material.
   • 2014, Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim (volume 1)

     They advanced in a crouch, dropping to their knees every few yards to pass under a hang of rock.

6. (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.

   I don't give a hang.

   They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.

Derived terms

• get the hang of

Etymology 2

From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of ham sandwich.

Noun

hang (uncountable)

1. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

Etymology 3

Noun

hang

1. Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)

Anagrams

• Ghan

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Etymology 1

From Dutch hangen, a merger of Middle Dutch hangen and {[m|dum|haen}}.

Verb

hang (present hang, present participle hangende, past participle gehang)

1. (transitive and intransitive) to hang

Etymology 2

From Dutch hang.

Noun

hang (plural hange)

1. slope

Synonyms

• helling

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Central Bahnaric *ha??, from Chamic. Compare Eastern Cham ?? (hang).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??/

Noun

hang 

1. bank, shore

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• halang

Adjective

hang

1. hot; pungent; spicy

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?h???]

• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

From German Hang, a noun derived from hangen, from Proto-Germanic *hanhan?.

Noun

hang c (singular definite hangen, not used in plural form)

1. inclination or disposition towards something

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

hang

1. past tense of hænge

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??
• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

hang c (plural hangen, diminutive hangetje n)

1. A support for hanging objects, such as a nail for a picture frame
2. A place to dry or smoke produce
3. A tendency, knack

Related terms

• hangijzer n

Verb

hang

1. first-person singular present indicative of hangen
2. imperative of hangen

Estonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish hanko.

Noun

hang (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. fork

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• hang in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested stem with the suffix -g.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h???]
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

hang (plural hangok)

1. voice

2. sound

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• hang in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Noun

hang f

1. h-prothesized form of ang

Italian

Noun

hang m (invariable)

1. (music) Hang

Malay

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hä?/

Pronoun

hang (Jawi spelling ???)

1. (dialectal) (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. (dialectal) (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject.

Synonyms

• awak / ????
• kamu / ?????
• kau / ????
• anda / ?????
• engkau / ??????

Further reading

• “hang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

hang

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of háng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hang

1. (intransitive) simple past of henge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

hang

1. past of henga

Ternate

Adverb

hang

1. not yet

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *ha?? (“cave”). Possibly related to the word reconstructed as Proto-Mon-Khmer *?aa? (“to open”) by Shorto (2006).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ha????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ha????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ha????]

Noun

(classifier cái) hang • (????, ????, ????, ????, ????)

1. cave

   Synonym: ??ng

2. den

Derived terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpan? (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lemb?- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).

Verb

limp (third-person singular simple present limps, present participle limping, simple past and past participle limped)

1. (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
2. (intransitive, figuratively, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.

   The bomber limped home on one engine.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To move or proceed irregularly.

   limping verses

   The business limped through the recession

4. (poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.

Derived terms

• limpard
• limper

Translations

Noun

limp (plural limps)

1. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

   She walks with a limp.

2. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *limp, *lemp, from Old English *lemp (recorded only in compound lemphealt (“limping”), from Proto-Germanic *limpan? (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lemb?- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with German lampecht (“flaccid, limp”), Icelandic lempinn, lempiligur (“pliable, gentle”). See above.

Adjective

limp (comparative limper, superlative limpest)

1. flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
2. lacking stiffness; flimsy

   a limp rope

3. (of a penis) not erect
4. (of a man) not having an erect penis
5. physically weak
   • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [2]

     Another line-out was stolen, and when the ball was sent left Clerc stepped and spun through limp challenges from Wilkinson, Chris Ashton and Foden to dive over and make it 11-0.

Derived terms

• limp-dick
• limp of the wrist
• limp-wrist
• limp-wristed

Translations

Verb

limp (third-person singular simple present limps, present participle limping, simple past and past participle limped)

1. (intransitive) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.

Noun

limp (plural limps)

1. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

Etymology 3

From Middle English limpen, from Old English limpan (“to happen, occur, exist, belong to, suit, befit, concern”), from Proto-Germanic *limpan? (“to glide, go, suit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lemb?- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Cognate with Scots limp (“to chance to be, come”), Middle Dutch limpen (“to happen”), Middle Low German gelimpen (“to moderate, treat mildly”), Middle High German limfen (“to suit, become”).

Verb

limp (third-person singular simple present limps, present participle limping, simple past lamp or limped, past participle lump or limped)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen; befall; chance.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To come upon; meet.

Derived terms

• belimp

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

• Limp

Phrase

limp

1. (historical) Acronym of Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of Wales. (a code-word among Jacobites)

References

Anagrams

• IPML, impl, pilm, plim

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• linp

Etymology

From a derivative of Latin lampas. Compare Italian lampo.

Noun

limp m

1. lightning