To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.
To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.
To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.
To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
to fail to curve, break, or drop as intended; -- said of pitches, such as curve balls or sliders.
to cease to operate normally and remain suspended in some state without performing useful work; -- said of computer programs, computers, or individual processes within a program; as, when using Windows 3.1, my system would hang and need rebooting several times a day.
1. An unexpected halt of a computer, usually while running an application program. A hung machine is characterized by a total lack of response from the mouse and keyboard. The user can almost never effect a recovery except by turning the computer off and restarting it. 2. In the construction "hang off", to attach a peripheral device to a computer via a cable. "I'm going to hang another hard drive off my home box."
When a computer freezes, so that it does not respond to keyboard commands, it is said to "hang" or to have "hung."
be suspended or hanging; "The flag hung on the wall"
cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall"
kill by hanging; "The murdered was hanged on Friday"
let drop or droop; "Hang one's head in shame"
give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"
be suspended or poised; "Heavy fog hung over the valley"
decorate or furnish with something suspended; "Hang wallpaper"
(v.) To cease operation because either an unexpected condition is not satisfied or an infinite loop is occurring. See also crash.
to suspend meat or game to allow it to age and/or tenderize.
A kind of computer crash that makes communication between the keyboard and computer impossible with the exception of utilising the CTRL-ALT-DEL function. Doing so will offer the user the option to close the active application or reboot the computer.
What happens when a modem fails to hang up or a computer fails to respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes.
Look at the following expressions:- "The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive" means to wait for an event that will never occur. "The program displays a menu and then hangs until you type a character" means to wait for some event to occur. "We are going to hang another tape drive off the file server" means to attach a peripheral device.
When a modem or other connection device fails to hang up, your session is hung up. It crashed. If there's no obvious way out, reboot.
A type of computer crash in which a program cannot complete its operation once it is initiated and the program does not respond to keyboard or mouse commands once this happens it is necessary to restart the computer to continue processing normal operation
In computing, either a single computer program or the whole system may "hang" or become unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input. The term "hang" is synonymous with "freeze," the more commonly used term. In a hang, the window affected or the whole computer screen becomes static, the latter case including the mouse cursor.
The Hang (pronounced 'hung' or 'hong') is a melodious percussive musical instrument, similar to a steel drum. It uses many of the same physical principles to operate. However, since it is struck with the fingers, the sound is generally much softer than a steel drum, and can be played in many ways to produce a large variety of hypnotic sounds.