What's the difference between hang and wang?

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.

Wang


Definition:

  • (n.) The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.
  • (n.) A slap; a blow.
  • (n.) See Whang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is possible that the high level of radiolabeled phospholipid found in the plasma membrane arose via the de novo pathway following the cleavage of an acyl group as we have found cytidine diphosphocholine phosphotransferase in the plasma membrane fraction (Wang, P., DeChatelet, L.R., and Waite, M. (1977) Biochim.
  • (2) "That won't be for another 10 years or more," said Wang.
  • (3) The remaining four crossbench senators – Jacqui Lambie, Bob Day, Dio Wang and Glenn Lazarus – are still in negotiations and have not yet reached a position on the bill.
  • (4) Wang said Taiwan’s people wanted the peaceful development of ties, wanted Chinese tourists and business relations, and wanted to live in a climate of peace.
  • (5) Wang Yongchen, who runs Green Earth Volunteers, one of China’s oldest environmental groups, cautioned that while the decision to scrap plans for dams on the Nu was a significant triumph, it was not necessarily a permanent one.
  • (6) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
  • (7) The effects of chloramine-T, a substance which partially and irreversibly inhibits inactivation of the Na current (Wang 1984), on the on and off charge movement (Qon and Qoff) and on the relative position of the Qon-E and F-E curves were studied on voltage clamped frog nodes of Ranvier.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
  • (9) When dealing with Tsai, we should bear in mind important factors such as her experience, personality and mindset,” added Wang, from the association for relations across the Taiwan strait.
  • (10) The oligonucleotide binding data imply that the tertiary hydrogen bonds between G18 and psi55, G19 and C56, T54 and m1A58, and A21 and the ribose of U8 (Quigley, G. J., Wang, A. H. J., Seeman, N. C., Suddath, F. L., Rich, A., Sussman, J. L., and Kim, S. H., (1975) Proc.
  • (11) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (12) We have found that the cloned fission yeast TOP2 gene can complement the budding yeast top2 mutation, although the fission yeast TOP2 protein sequence is only 50% homologous to the recently determined sequence of budding yeast (J.C. Wang, personal communication).
  • (13) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
  • (14) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
  • (15) Although numerous possible functions of eukaryotic DNA methylation have been proposed (Ehrlich and Wang, 1981), current evidence suggests an association between hypomethylation of specific gene regions and transcriptional activity (Doerfler, 1983; Riggs and Jones, 1983).
  • (16) On Saturday, after a week of escalating protests over Twitter's response to the threats, Tony Wang, Twitter's UK general manager, and Del Harvey, director of trust and safety, posted a promise of action on the Twitter UK blog , including instant report buttons for abuse to be gradually introduced on different platforms.
  • (17) Wang is now under investigation by Chinese officials.
  • (18) Wang Yue was more matter-of-fact: "After 520 days, we are finally back."
  • (19) "A peace deal has advantages for both sides," Tony Wang, a spokesman for Ma, said today.
  • (20) 'Your only right is to obey': lawyer describes torture in China's secret jails Read more Separate reports have said two other civil rights attorneys, Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang, have also been tortured while in custody.

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