What's the difference between hanging and lynching?

Hanging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hang
  • (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
  • (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
  • (a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
  • (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
  • (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
  • (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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.

Lynching


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lynch

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acts like this have no place in our country and in a civilized society,” Lynch said in Washington.
  • (2) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) According to the latest World Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch, there are now 10.1 million people worth more than $1m (£507,000), excluding the value of their homes.
  • (5) Economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote in a note to clients on Friday that it ranked “a serious escalation of US-China trade tensions” as the biggest risk to the global economy in 2017.
  • (6) But it wasn't O'Neal who requested the article's suppression; according to Google's UK head of communications, Peter Barron, it was "an ordinary member of the public who left a comment on Robert's blog" and he reassured us that "If you search for Merrill Lynch [the blog] will appear.
  • (7) - @lyallgrant #Syria September 27, 2013 But veteran UN watcher Colum Lynch explains what the draft really means on Foreign Policy's The Cable blog .
  • (8) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
  • (9) The David Lynch limited-edition box set is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 4 June, courtesy of Universal Pictures
  • (10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
  • (11) Greece missed a payment to the International Monetary Fund last week and the clock will tick down to 20 July when Greece must repay €3.5bn to the ECB – the final deadline, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
  • (12) We describe the decision logic that was involved in the diagnosis of Lynch syndrome II in this family and indicate the important role of the gynecologists in this process.
  • (13) The men are accused of running a near decade-long conspiracy during their time at the firm and are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the Clean Air Act, and wire fraud, the US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
  • (14) US attorney general Loretta Lynch closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email practices with no charges on Wednesday, formally ending a protracted saga that has clouded her campaign with questions of trustworthiness.
  • (15) A spokeswoman for Lynch said Autonomy had handed all receipts to its accountant, Deloitte, on a quarterly basis, even though it was not obliged to do so.
  • (16) On the same day, armed men entered the Hôpital Communautaire with the intention of lynching patients, while health staff were threatened.
  • (17) For this patient's treatment, all three consultants advise against the Lynch-type frontoethmoidectomy procedure, with or without mucoperiosteal flap reconstruction of the nasofrontal duct.
  • (18) An alteration in the postsynaptic response to endogenous neurotransmitter, as a result of an increase in the number of postsynaptic receptors, has been proposed (Baudry and Lynch, 1980).
  • (19) Intranuclear virus-like particles, as described by Zelickson and Lynch, were seen in 3 cases; 2 of these subsequently underwent malignant degeneration.
  • (20) Security analyst Jorge Kawas said extradition was almost inevitable for El Chapo, but he cautioned: “Some powerful people in the (Mexican) elite should be worried if El Chapo decides to spill the beans.” In a brief statement on Friday, US attorney general Loretta Lynch hailed the arrest as a “victory for the citizens of both Mexico and the United States.” She comended the Mexican authorities, but made no mention of the subject of extradition.

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