different between hanger vs starvation

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

starve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /st???ve???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st???ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: star?va?tion

Noun

starvation (countable and uncountable, plural starvations)

1. A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"

2. (figuratively) Severe shortage of resources.
   • 2002, Allan N. Packer, Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform (page 362)

     However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.

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