What's the difference between hung and rung?

Hung


Definition:

  • () of Hang
  • () imp. & p. p. of Hang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
  • (2) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (3) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
  • (4) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
  • (5) But O'Donnell stressed that hung parliaments were rare.
  • (6) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
  • (7) Without him, we were at the mercy of increasingly nervous investors, and our Hollywood film-making future hung in the balance.
  • (8) Similar differential inhibition by dipyridamole of the salvage of thymidine, as opposed to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, was reported previously (G. V. Betageri, J. Szebeni, K. Hung, S. S. Patel, L. M. Wahl, M. Corcoran, and J. N. Weinstein, Biochem.
  • (9) Read more Both Xenophon and Katter had left open the prospect of entering formal minority agreements with the Coalition – unlike Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie , who said they would approach a hung parliament vote by vote.
  • (10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
  • (11) Lewis has not hung around in sorting out the unwanted porfolio.
  • (12) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, hailed the results, including the 12,000-vote win in Clacton over the Conservatives, and predicted the party might hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.
  • (13) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
  • (14) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
  • (15) These results extend the previously proposed model (Hung, C.-H., Noelken, M. E., and Hudson, B. G. (1981) J. Biol.
  • (16) Are people overly hung up on the ability of people to change?
  • (17) The market's assessment of the impact of a hung parliament has been mixed.
  • (18) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.
  • (19) Another journalist asks whether Clegg would support the party with the most voters or the most seats in a hung parliament.
  • (20) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.

Rung


Definition:

  • () of Ring
  • (p. p.) of Ring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
  • (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
  • (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
  • (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
  • (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
  • (2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
  • (3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
  • (4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
  • (5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
  • (6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
  • (7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
  • (8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
  • (9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
  • (10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
  • (11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
  • (12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
  • (13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
  • (14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
  • (15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
  • (16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
  • (17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
  • (18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
  • (19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
  • (20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.