(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.
Lean
Definition:
(v. t.) To conceal.
(v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
(v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
(v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
(v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
(v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
(v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
(v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
(n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
(n.) Unremunerative copy or work.
Example Sentences:
(1) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(2) Cholera toxin-catalysed ADP-ribosylation identified two forms of Gs alpha-subunits whose labelling was about 4-fold greater in membranes from diabetic animals compared with those from lean animals.
(3) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.
(4) We conclude that both lean and obese former GDM women have insulin secretion defects.
(5) In lean rats, there were no permanent effects of this intervention except for a 25% reduction in carbohydrate intake.
(6) Polydispersity of PS played a vital role in determining variables at the critical state of phase separation, such as the composition of coacervate (dense) and lean phases.
(7) In addition, insulin tolerance tests were performed on 8 lean and 8 obese subjects before and after starvation.
(8) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(9) Total body fat decreased from 55.8 to 41.4 kg and lean body mass and arm muscle circumference (AMC) remained unchanged.
(10) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(11) Glucagon concentrations are higher in corpulent rats than lean rats at 3 months of age and decrease progressively with age.
(12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(13) Inhibitors of carbohydrate absorption failed to suppress food intake in either obese or lean Zucker rats and had no effect on the parameters of feeding.
(14) And there seems to be party consensus that this is a good thing; a poll released this week by NBC News and Survey Monkey found that 57% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want Sanders to stay in the race until the convention.
(15) I agree with Sheryl's lean in advice around setting career goals (18 months and life-long) and also how to work with peers and those in more senior positions.
(16) In the obese, modifications in body constitution (higher percentage of fat and lower percentage of lean tissue and water) can affect drug distribution in the tissues.
(17) This report deals with the association between the constituents of lean body mass (LBM) and resting metabolic rate (RMR) before and after a 100-d overfeeding period.
(18) In contrast, glucose utilization in periovarian white adipose tissue was similarly increased in lean and obese rats.
(19) Pioglitazone decreased hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia without affecting hyperinsulinemia in the fatty rats, and significantly reduced plasma levels of triglyceride and insulin without altering normoglycemia in the lean rats.
(20) The circadian rhythm of glycogen metabolism in liver and skeletal muscle was studied in lean and gold thioglucose (GTG) induced-obese mice.