different between hanger vs aerodrome

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang +? -er. Compare West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger and Henker.

Pronunciation 1

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hæ??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)
• Homophone: hangar

Noun

hanger (plural hangers)

1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
2. A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
3. That by which a thing is suspended.
   1. A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
   2. A bridle iron.
   3. A clothes hanger.
4. (now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.8:

     [H]is shoulder was graced with a broad buff belt, from whence depended a huge hanger with a hilt like that of a backsword […] .

   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 4:

     I made an offer to go for my books and chest of clothes, but he swore I should not move out of his sight; and if I did he would cut my throat, at the same time taking his hanger.

   • 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 440:

     When he called ‘Watch!’ they cut him on the head with a hanger or short cutlass and fired a pistol so close to his face he was thought to be powder-burned for life.

5. (Britain) A steep, wooded slope.
6. (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
7. (Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark

Derived terms

• byhanger
• onhanger

Usage notes

Not to be confused with hangar (a garage-like building for airplanes).

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of hunger +? anger.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæ???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæ???/
• Rhymes: -æ???(?)

Noun

hanger (uncountable)

1. (slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.

Related terms

• hangry

Anagrams

• Hagner, Rhegan, rehang

Cebuano

Etymology

From English hanger, from Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha?nger

Noun

hanger

1. a coat hanger; a device used to hang up coats, shirts, etc., a clothes hanger

Dutch

Etymology

From hangen +? -er

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: han?ger
• Rhymes: -???r

Noun

hanger m (plural hangers, diminutive hangertje n)

1. hanger
2. jewel that hangs

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: hanger

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch hanger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ha??r]
• Hyphenation: hang?êr

Noun

hangêr (first-person possessive hangerku, second-person possessive hangermu, third-person possessive hangernya)

1. (colloquial) clothes hanger.

Further reading

• “hanger” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

hanger

1. Alternative form of anger

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (hancer), from Persian ????? (xanjar).

Noun

hanger n (plural hangere)

1. dagger

Declension

English

Etymology

In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” coined by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley in 1897, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (aerodrómos, “traversing the air”).In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- +? -drome, a suffix formed in analogy with hippodrome (“horse racecourse”), from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

aerodrome (plural aerodromes)

1. An airfield:
   1. (law, Australia, Canada, term of art) Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
   2. An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
      • 1928 June 30, Kenya Gazette, page 862,

        Any person authorised by the Governor shall have the right of access at all reasonable times to any aerodrome other than a Royal Air Force aerodrome for the purpose of inspecting the aerodrome, […] .

      • 1998, Walter Schwenk, Rüdiger Schwenk, Aspects Of International Cooperation In Air Traffic Management, page 15,

        Apart from these aerodromes where ATC services have been established, a number of aerodromes exist where ATC services are not provided. In such cases the establishment of ATC services may be required by the aerodrome operators.

   3. (Britain) An airfield equipped with air traffic control facilities and hangars as well as accommodation for passengers and cargo; an airport.
2. (obsolete) A flying machine composed of aeroplanes. An aeroplane, particularly one constructed by or according to the design of Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly.
   • 1908 June 8, Nikola Tesla, Little Aeroplane Progress: So Says Nikola Tesla-But He Is Working on One of His Own, letter to The New York Times, Page 6,

     The Langley and Maxim aerodromes, which did not soar, were in my opinion better pieces of mechanism than their very latest imitations.

   • 1911 October, The Progress of Science: Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Popular Science,

     An aerodrome, chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile.

   • 1914 December, Popular Mechanics, page 811,

     This was apparently due to the weakness of the old Manley motor with which the aerodrome was originally equipped and which was capable of developing only 52 horsepower.

   • 1918, Automotive Industries, Volume 39, page 718,

     During the years 1892 and 1893 four steam-propelled aerodromes were constructed.

Descendants

• ? Irish: aeradróm

Translations

See also

• aerodromics

References