What's the difference between gatepost and hung?

Gatepost


Definition:

  • (n.) A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.
  • (n.) A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They originally stood on the tall gatepost at its site from medieval times at Moorfields, in the heart of London , and moved in the 19th century to the green fields of Southwark, the site now occupied by the Imperial War Museum.
  • (2) As you go in you see the original large stone gatepost sculptures that graced the entrance of Hogarth’s Bedlam when he depicted people on Sunday afternoon tours to stare at the lunatics.
  • (3) The £6bn garden industry sells plants but also £20,000 wooden statues of horses and panthers, £10,000 gateposts and sheds, as well as beehives, bird boxes and driftwood sculptures.
  • (4) There are menacing stone eagles on gateposts and disconcertingly huge flower pots, large enough to conceal a crouching human.
  • (5) He sometimes leans on his gatepost, watching people walk past but usually we see him in the driving seat of his parked car.

Hung


Definition:

  • () of Hang
  • () imp. & p. p. of Hang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
  • (2) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (3) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
  • (4) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
  • (5) But O'Donnell stressed that hung parliaments were rare.
  • (6) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
  • (7) Without him, we were at the mercy of increasingly nervous investors, and our Hollywood film-making future hung in the balance.
  • (8) Similar differential inhibition by dipyridamole of the salvage of thymidine, as opposed to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, was reported previously (G. V. Betageri, J. Szebeni, K. Hung, S. S. Patel, L. M. Wahl, M. Corcoran, and J. N. Weinstein, Biochem.
  • (9) Read more Both Xenophon and Katter had left open the prospect of entering formal minority agreements with the Coalition – unlike Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie , who said they would approach a hung parliament vote by vote.
  • (10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
  • (11) Lewis has not hung around in sorting out the unwanted porfolio.
  • (12) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, hailed the results, including the 12,000-vote win in Clacton over the Conservatives, and predicted the party might hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.
  • (13) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
  • (14) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
  • (15) These results extend the previously proposed model (Hung, C.-H., Noelken, M. E., and Hudson, B. G. (1981) J. Biol.
  • (16) Are people overly hung up on the ability of people to change?
  • (17) The market's assessment of the impact of a hung parliament has been mixed.
  • (18) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.
  • (19) Another journalist asks whether Clegg would support the party with the most voters or the most seats in a hung parliament.
  • (20) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.

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