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单词 hung juries
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hang /hang/

transitive verb (pat and pap hung /hung/ (in all senses) or hanged (by the neck))
  1. To support from above against gravity
  2. To suspend
  3. To decorate (eg a wall) with pictures, tapestry, etc
  4. To fasten, to stick (wallpaper, etc)
  5. To exhibit (pictures, etc)
  6. To fix, to fit (a door, etc)
  7. To put to death by suspending by the neck
  8. To cause to be brought to justice
  9. To prevent (a jury) from coming to a decision
  10. To suspend (meat or game) until mature
  11. (in the imperative and passive) a euphemism for damn
intransitive verb
  1. To be suspended, so as to allow free sideways motion
  2. To be put to death by suspending by the neck
  3. To be brought to justice
  4. To weigh down, to oppress (with on and over)
  5. To cling (with on or onto)
  6. To drape (well, badly, etc)
  7. To be exhibited
  8. (of a jury) to be undecided
  9. To be in suspense
  10. To hover
  11. To impend
  12. To linger
  13. To hold back
  14. To depend for outcome (on)
  15. To have things hanging
  16. To be in a state of paying extremely close attention (with on)
  17. (of a computer) to stop working at a particular stage, allowing no input or output
  18. (often with with) to spend time relaxing or doing something enjoyable, hang out (N American informal)
noun
  1. The action or mode of hanging
  2. Principle of connection, plan
  3. Knack of using
  4. Meaning
  5. A declivity
  6. A slackening of motion
  7. A hanging mass
  8. A euphemism for damn
ORIGIN: OE hangian, pat hangode, pap hangod (intransitive) and hōn, pat heng, pap hangen (transitive), and ON hanga and hengja; cf Du and Ger hangen

hangabilˈity noun

hangˈable adjective

  1. Liable to be hanged
  2. Punishable by hanging

hangˈer noun

  1. Someone who hangs
  2. That on which anything is hung
  3. (in placenames) a wood on a hillside (OE hangra)
  4. A short sword

hangˈing adjective

  1. Suspending
  2. Suspended
  3. Drooping
  4. Downcast
  5. Deserving or involving death by hanging
noun
  1. Death by the noose
  2. (esp in pl) that which is hung, eg drapery or decorations

hung adjective

  1. (of a vote, election, etc) not decisive, producing no viable majority for any one party
  2. (of a parliament, etc) having no party with a working majority
  3. (of a jury) unable to agree on a verdict
  4. (of a situation) unable to be settled or solved
  5. (of a man) genitally endowed in a specified way, as in well-hung (informal)

hangˈbird noun

A Baltimore oriole (from its pensile nest)

hangˈdog noun

A contemptible person

adjective

With a cowed, dejected or guilty look

hanger-onˈ noun

  1. (pl hangers-on') a person who hangs around or sticks to a person or place for personal gain
  2. An importunate acquaintance
  3. A dependant

hangˈfire noun

Delay in explosion

hangˈ-glide intransitive verb

hangˈ-glider noun

An apparatus for hang-gliding, or the person using it

hangˈ-gliding noun

A sport in which one glides from a cliff-top, etc hanging in a harness from a large kite

hanging basket noun

A container in which flowering plants are grown, suspended by chains from a hook on the outer wall of a building

hanging buttress noun

A buttress supported by a corbel or the like

hanging committee noun

A committee that chooses the works of art to be shown in an exhibition

hanging drop preparation noun

A preparation for a microscope in which the specimen, in a drop of medium on the lower surface of the coverslip, is suspended over the depression in a hollow-ground slide

hanging garden see under garden

hanging matter noun

  1. A crime leading to capital punishment
  2. A serious matter (informal)

hanging valley noun (geography)

A tributary valley not graded to the main valley, a product of large-scale glaciation

hangˈman noun

  1. A public executioner
  2. A word-guessing game involving the drawing of a gibbet with victim

adjective

Rascally

hangnail noun see separate entry.

hangˈnest noun

A hangbird

hangˈout noun (informal)

A haunt

hangˈover noun

  1. A survival (from another time)
  2. After-effects, esp of drinking alcohol (see also hung over below)

hang time noun (informal)

The length of time a person or thing is able to remain in the air after jumping or being projected before returning to the ground

hangˈ-up noun (informal)

  1. A problem about which one is obsessed or preoccupied
  2. An inhibition (see also hung up below)

hungˈ-beef noun

Beef cured and dried

hung jury noun

A jury that fails to agree

get the hang of (informal)

To grasp the principle or meaning of

hang about or around

  1. To loiter
  2. To associate habitually (with someone; informal)
  3. To stay, remain, persist

hang a left or right (informal)

To turn left or right (esp when driving)

hang back

  1. To show reluctance
  2. To lag behind

hang by a thread

To depend upon very precarious conditions, a most slender chance, etc (from the sword of Damocles)

hang, draw and quarter

To hang (a person), cut him or her down while still alive, disembowel and cut him or her into pieces for exposure at different places (earlier, draw, hang and quarter to drag on a hurdle or otherwise to the place of execution, then hang and quarter)

hang fire

  1. To be a long time in exploding or discharging
  2. To be slow in taking effect
  3. To hesitate, delay

hang in (slang)

  1. To wait
  2. To persist (also hang in there)

hang in the balance

To be in doubt or suspense

hang loose (slang)

  1. To do nothing
  2. To be relaxed

hang off

  1. To let go
  2. To hold off

hang on (informal)

  1. To wait
  2. To persist

hang one's head

To look ashamed or sheepish

hang on someone's lips or words

To give close, admiring attention to someone

hang out

  1. To hang up outside
  2. To display (eg a sign)
  3. To put outside on a clothes-line
  4. To lodge or reside (informal)
  5. To spend time relaxing or doing something enjoyable (informal)

hang out for

To insist on

hang out with (informal)

To associate habitually with

hang over

  1. To project over or lean out from
  2. (of an unresolved problem, decision, etc) to overshadow, threaten

hang together

  1. To keep united
  2. To be consistent
  3. To connect

hang tough (US)

To stay resolute or determined

hang up

  1. To suspend
  2. To delay
  3. To replace a telephone receiver and so break off communication

hang up one's hat

To take up one's abode

hung over

Suffering from a hangover

hung up (informal)

In a state of anxiety, obsessed (with about or on)

let it all hang out (informal)

To be completely uninhibited, relaxed

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