Hanging

Verb
hanging



Adjective

 * 1) Suspended.
 * The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.

Derived terms

 * hanging garden
 * hanging loop
 * hanging participle

Noun

 * 1)  The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide).
 * Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
 * 1)  A public event at which a person is hanged.
 * The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
 * 1)  Anything wide, high and rather thin that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, wallpaper or posters).
 * The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
 * 1)  The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
 * I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.

Derived terms

 * wall hanging

Thesaurus
act drop, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, bagging, baggy, batten, beheading, blanket, border, burning, capital punishment, cascading, cloak, cloth, coat, coulisse, counterweight, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crucifixion, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, danglement, dangling, decapitation, decline, declivity, decollation, decor, defenestration, dependence, dependency, dependent, depending, descent, dip, downcast, downgate, downgrade, downhanging, downhill, downturned, drape, drapery, drooping, drop, drop curtain, ear lobe, easy, electrocution, execution, fall, falling, falling loosely, falling-off, fire curtain, flapping, flat, flipper, flowing, fusillade, garrote, gassing, guise, hang, hanger, hemlock, hood, housing, hung, judicial murder, lapidation, lappet, lax, lobation, lobe, lobule, loose, mantle, mask, necktie party, pall, pendant, pendency, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulosity, pendulous, pendulousness, pensile, pensileness, pensility, poisoning, rag, relaxed, rickety, scene, scenery, screen, shaky, shelter, shield, shooting, shroud, side scene, slack, sloppy, stage screw, stoning, strangling, strangulation, streaming, suspended, suspense, suspension, swinging, tab, tableau, teaser, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, uvula, veil, vestment, weeping, wing, wingcut, woodcut

Adjective

 * Dutch: hangend, hangende
 * Finnish: roikkuva
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Greek: αναρτημένος (anartimenos), κρεμάμενος (kremamenos) , κρεμαστός (kremastos)
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,

Noun

 * Arabic: شنق
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 絞刑, 绞刑, 吊死
 * Dutch: verhanging, verhangen
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Erhängung


 * Greek: απαγχονισμός
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 絞殺刑
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خنکاندن
 * Latvian: kāršana, pakāršana
 * Lithuanian: korimas, pakorimas
 * Russian:
 * Russian:


 * Dutch: verhanging
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: hirttäjäiset
 * French:


 * German: Erhängung
 * Greek: απαγχονισμός
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:


 * German: Behang


 * German: Hängung


 * Greek: