Entry Word: hang

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to place on an elevated point without support from below <hang your coats on the coat rack in the hall>

Synonyms dangle, sling, suspend, swing

Related Words hook, pin, tack; drape, festoon, garland, string; extend (out), jut, project, stick out; overhang, protrude; cascade, depend, fall

2 to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) <our plan to go to the amusement park had all been worked out; now it just hung on the weather> — see depend 1
3 to be limp from lack of water or vigor <as they neared the end of the long, hard march all but the most hardy were hanging, and some could barely put one foot in front of the other> — see droop 1
4 to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air <hanging just above the horizon was a little pink cloud> — see float