different between hanging vs pensile

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæ???/
• Rhymes: -æ???

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

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.
3. (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher hence relatively easy to hit.

4. (Britain, slang, of a person) ugly; very unattractive
   • 2007, Summer Scars (film screenplay)

     MUGSEY: Yeah. You fancy ‘im don’ you.
     LEANNE: No I don’t. Shut yer mouth.
     MUGSEY: Your mum said he’s gonna end up just like his dad.
     LEANNE: She don’ even know Bingo. Anyway, I don’t fancy ‘im, ‘e’s hanging.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang +? -ing. Compare Old English hengen (“hanging”) and h?hing (“hanging”).

Noun

hanging (countable and uncountable, plural hangings)

1. (uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).

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

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

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

3. (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins 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, Abraham's balsam, hempen elixir, necktie party

Derived terms

• wall hanging

Translations

See also

• portière, portiere

English

Alternative forms

• pensill (obsolete)

Etymology

From classical Latin p?nsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nsa?l/

Adjective

pensile (comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)

1. Hanging down, suspended.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)

     However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]

Anagrams

• Lepines, espinel, sleep in, sleep-in

Italian

Etymology

From Latin p?nsilis (“hanging”). Doublet of pesolo. Compare Portuguese pênsil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pen?si.le/
• Rhymes: -?nsile

Adjective

pensile (plural pensili)

1. hanging, suspended

Derived terms

• giardino pensile
• pensilina

Noun

pensile m (plural pensili)

1. wall cabinet; wall cupboard

Latin

Adjective

p?nsile

1. nominative neuter singular of p?nsilis
2. accusative neuter singular of p?nsilis
3. vocative neuter singular of p?nsilis