The word hang can mean:
- Hanging, a form of capital punishment.
- Hang (instrument), a musical instrument.
- "Hang", a song by Avail from their 1996 album 4am Friday
- Hang (computing), a computer malfunction.
- Hanging scroll, a type of decorative art.
- Hanging craft, decorative or symbolic hanging object
- Hang, a Chinese word
- Hanging (meat), a form of beef aging.
Famous quotes containing the word hang:
“I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the rope having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”
—Martin Amis (b. 1949)
““There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows,
Is some of it pr—No, ‘t is not even prose;
I’m speaking of metres;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)