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語源 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

hanging

1. present participle and gerund of hang

形容詞

hanging (not comparable)

1. Suspended.

   The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.

2. (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
3. (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.

   hanging breaking ball

   hanging slider

4. (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
   • 2007, Summer Scars (film screenplay)

     MUGSEY: Yeah. You fancy ‘im don’ you.
     LEANNE: No I don’t. Shut yer mouth.
     MUGSEY: Your mum said he’s gonna end up just like his dad.
     LEANNE: She don’ even know Bingo. Anyway, I don’t fancy ‘im, ‘e’s hanging.

5. (typography, of a punctuation mark) Extending beyond the margins of a page.

   hanging punctuation

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang +‎ -ing. Compare 古期英語 hengen (“hanging”) and hōhing (“hanging”).

名詞

hanging (countable and uncountable, plural hangings)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).

   Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.

   The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.

   • 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway‎, volume 2, London, page 37:

     No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?

   • 1958 May, “Excursions Extraordinary”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:

     Public hangings were abolished in 1868 by Act of Parliament.

   • 2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2022:

     It was just too bad that Milosevic died of "natural" causes in his cell in 2006 before he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, although a hanging would have been preferable.

2. (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).

   The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.

3. (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.

   I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.

同意語

• (execution): halter, a quick drop and a sudden stop, Abraham's balsam, necktie party

派生語

参考

• portière, portiere