different between suspense vs hang

English

Alternative forms

• suspence (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin susp?nsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??sp?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

suspense (usually uncountable, plural suspenses)

1. The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
2. the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
3. The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
   • 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy

     Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.

4. (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.

Derived terms

• suspenseful

Translations

Adjective

suspense (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
2. (obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.

French

Etymology 1

Nominalisation of the feminine form of suspens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.p??s/

Noun

suspense f (plural suspenses)

1. suspense (state of being suspended)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English suspense, itself from Old French suspense. Doublet of suspens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.p?ns/

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

1. suspense (emotion; feeling)

Further reading

• “suspense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From French suspense, from English suspense.

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

1. suspense
2. thriller

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English suspense.

Noun

suspense f (invariable)

1. suspense (all senses)

Latin

Participle

susp?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of susp?nsus

References

• suspense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• suspense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

1. suspense (the excited anticipation of an outcome)
2. (fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)

Spanish

Etymology

From French suspense, from English suspense.

Noun

suspense m (plural suspenses)

1. (Spain) suspense

   Synonym: (Latin America) suspenso

2. thriller

Derived terms

• novela de suspense (“thriller”) (novel genre)
• película de suspense (“thriller”) (film genre)

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