What's the difference between hanger and wanger?

Hanger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
  • (n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
  • (n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
  • (n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.
  • (n.) A bridle iron.
  • (n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
  • (n.) A steep, wooded declivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Before this scheme rolled out I think there were very few accidents in the insulation industry," said the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, adding that problems occurred after an influx of people becoming installers, including a number of "shonks".
  • (2) When he could finally find a question he was able to understand or willing to answer, his responses were either that he was far too important to have got involved in that level of detail or a microscopic analysis of the price of coat hangers.
  • (3) My present intention is not to repeat the examination and findings of those inquiries, nor do I intend to endlessly traverse matters which have already been examined,” Hanger told the opening hearing in Brisbane.
  • (4) The missing detail in every incomplete clarification worked like a cliff-hanger ending in a soap, leaving the audience hungry for the next episode.
  • (5) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
  • (6) Press TV, which has offices near Hanger Lane in north-west London, employs a number of other UK journalists.
  • (7) Wings for the A400M – made from lightweight composites rather than aluminium to dramatically reduce weight and improve speed and manoeuvrability – are taking shape inside a nondescript hanger in Filton called 07N.
  • (8) Almost a full day behind schedule, Rudd appeared in Brisbane magistrate's court but did not speak a word beyond giving his name as the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, and legal representatives held a heated discussion about the huge portions of Rudd's statement which had been redacted on request from the commonwealth due to parliamentary privilege.
  • (9) Hanger said: "Four young men died while undertaking installations funded by the home insulation program.
  • (10) Outside parliament on Saturday coat hangers, brandished by protesters as symbols of the crude tools used for backstreet abortions, were interspersed with red-painted placards proclaiming “My womb, not the fatherland’s” but also broader messages, such as “Make love not PiS”.
  • (11) Demonstrating his drawing power, hundreds of supporters turned out in the unlikely and awkward setting of an aircraft hanger.
  • (12) For women who lived in the United States before abortion was made legal, there are few images more evocative and distressing than the wire coat hanger.
  • (13) And so it was that I too succumbed to the vile illness and found myself quite without sight for a month, a cliff-hanger infinitely more effective in a serialisation than when you need only turn the page to find my sight restored.
  • (14) Lung cancer was elevated among men employed as insulators (odds ratio [OR] = 6.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.7, 137.8), carpenters (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0, 1.7), painters, plasterers, and wallpaper hangers (OR = 2.0; 95% CI = 1.2,3.3), structural metal workers (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 0.6,6.0), mechanics and repairers (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0,1.7), motor vehicle drivers (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 1.2,1.8), police and firefighters (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.1,2.3), and food service personnel (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.0,3.5).
  • (15) The television will finally come off standby and every single dress I own will be on its own hanger.
  • (16) Walker suggested Hanger's final report would be "impossible" should Rudd not be allowed to fully answer "suggestions" made by the current government that the home insulation scheme was created in days.
  • (17) The handles are attached to the slitlamp stand by placing a hanger bolt screw into the wooden dowel, inserting the exposed end of the screw through a hole drilled in the slitlamp table, and fastening the handle with a wing nut.
  • (18) Turn right at a crossroads to the Beech Hanger Woodland.
  • (19) It has been quite a phenomenon, telling us how, still, market dogmatism rules the economics profession (and its hangers-on in journalism).
  • (20) If this scene feels out of place in 2016, that may be because there was a time in this country’s history when thousands of back-alley and coat-hanger abortions prompted calls for the procedure to be legal.

Wanger


Definition:

  • (n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There comes a time during the making of a movie when the actors become the characters they play," Wanger noted in his diary.
  • (2) Taylor was in London where she was completing Suddenly, Last Summer (in which she brilliantly played Katharine Hepburn's mentally-disturbed niece), when the producer Walter Wanger offered her the title role in Cleopatra.
  • (3) In 1939 Schulberg was hired by Walter Wanger to develop a screenplay for United Artists, set at the annual Dartmouth winter carnival.
  • (4) But the patients showing high levels of 6KPG in the acute stage showed lower levels of CPK and lower Wanger's QRS score than the patients showing low levels of 6KPG.