What's the difference between hang and hong?

Hang


Definition:

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.
  • (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.
  • (v. i.) To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc.
  • (v. i.) To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.
  • (v. i.) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
  • (v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
  • (v. i.) To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.
  • (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.
  • (v. i.) To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.
  • (v. i.) To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
  • (v. i.) To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.
  • (v. i.) To lean or incline; to incline downward.
  • (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds.
  • (v. i.) To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.
  • (n.) The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.
  • (n.) Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.
  • (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
  • (2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
  • (3) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
  • (4) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
  • (5) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
  • (6) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (7) His photographs are hanging all over my house today.
  • (8) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
  • (9) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
  • (10) 68 min: Ronaldo gets booked for hanging out of Ginaluca Zambrotta.
  • (11) At the time of the most recent follow-up, the success rate was 64% in the hang-back group and 85% in the conventional group.
  • (12) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
  • (13) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
  • (14) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
  • (15) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (16) Sixteen percent of the treatment sample were found to be abusive pattern drinkers; that is, persons who report not only drinking heavily but also spending a great deal of time hanging out on the street, getting high, and consuming many other additional drugs.
  • (17) Ellen White: It depends what group you hang around in.
  • (18) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
  • (19) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
  • (20) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.

Hong


Definition:

  • (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
  • (v. t. & i.) To hang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (2) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (3) A variation of a procedure for localized mutagenesis (Hong and Ames, 1971) was employed to generate conditional lethal mutants in phosphatidylserine decarboxylase.
  • (4) The HKSAR government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."
  • (5) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
  • (6) Comparison of these hybrid viruses with the parent A(2) strains provided evidence that all the cross-reactivity of the Hong Kong strain with previous A(2) viruses is explicable on the basis of its similar neuraminidase component.
  • (7) The Hong Kong antibody titres in this group showed no correlation with the titres of simultaneously circulating classical A2 antibody.
  • (8) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
  • (9) When she filmed Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and myself in Hong Kong, it never occurred to me she had something as ambitious as CitizenFour in mind.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Snowden revealed going to Hong Kong was not part of a masterplan, adding the state department stranded him in Russia.
  • (11) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
  • (12) It’s just huge – and very exciting.” He says having a son who lived in Hong Kong has helped him to understand the market better, and that building up strong relationships had been key.
  • (13) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
  • (14) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
  • (15) While real-life Hong Kong residents took to the streets in their tens of thousands to march for democracy, the Transformers film shows a local leader calling on central government to save the day when the territory faces an invasion by the mutant robots.
  • (16) Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate that owns Three, agreed in March 2015 to buy O2 from Telefónica of Spain.
  • (17) Yet calls for an independent Hong Kong are made from anger rather than reason.
  • (18) The party’s first challenge comes on 4 September when Law plans to stand as a candidate in elections for Hong Kong’s legislative council.
  • (19) The clinical findings relating to 11 patients in Hong Kong (HK) and to 43 patients described elsewhere, all with Streptococcus zooepidemicus septicaemia, are reviewed.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A pro-democracy demonstrator pours water over a man’s face after police fired teargas at protesters in Hong Kong.

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