Hang vs Delay - What's the difference?

Hang is a related term of delay.

As verbs the difference between hang and delay

is that hang is while delay is to put off until a later time; to defer or delay can be (obsolete) to dilute, temper.

As a noun delay is

a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

hang

English

(wikipedia hang)

Etymology 1

A fusion of (etyl) .

Verb

(lb) To be or remain suspended.

*:On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.

(lb) To float, as if suspended.

(lb) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

(lb) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger or the like.

::It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}

To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.

To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.

(lb) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.

(lb) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

(lb) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

*1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine , Ch.X:

*:Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking.

To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard or mouse.

To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

To be vulnerable to capture.

Synonyms

* (be or remain suspended) be suspended, dangle * (float as if suspended) float, hover * lynch, string up * (be executed) go to the gallows, swing (informal) * (loiter) hang about, hang around, loiter * freeze, lock up * suspend * (hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect) drop, lower * (to place on a hook) hook, hook up * (exhibit) exhibit, show * put up * bedeck, deck, decorate * freeze, lock up * *

Usage notes

* Formerly, at least through the 16th century, the past tense of the transitive use of (term) was (hanged) (see quote from King James Bible, above). This form is retained for the legal senses "to be executed by suspension from the neck" and "to execute by suspension from the neck" and (hung) for all other meanings. However, this rule is not uniformly understood or observed. (term) is sometimes substituted for (term), which would be considered inappropriate in legal or other formal writing (for the applicable senses only) or, more rarely, vice versa . See also – in Old English there were separate words for transitive (whence (term)) and intransitive (whence (term)).

Derived terms

* behang * hang a left * hang a right * hang about * hang around * hang back * hangdog * * hanger * hang fire * hang-glider * hang in * hang in the balance * hang in there * hanging * hang it * hangman * hangnail * hang off * hang on * hang onto * hang out * hang out to dry * hang-out, hangout * hangover * hang ten * hang together * hang tough * hang up * hang-up, hangup * I'll be hanged * leave hanging * overhang * underhang

Noun

(en noun)

The way in which something hangs.

''This skirt has a nice hang .

(figuratively) A grip, understanding

''He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations

(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.

''We sometimes get system hangs .

A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

Derived terms

* get the hang of

Etymology 2

From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of (term) sandwich.

Noun

(-)

(Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

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delay

English

(wikipedia delay)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

Verb

(en verb)

To put off until a later time; to defer.

* Bible, (w) xxiv. 48

My lord delayeth his coming.

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed , and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}

(label) To allay; to temper.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The watery showers delay the raging wind.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

Synonyms

* See also * adjourn * defer * forslow * postpone * put off * put on ice * suspend

Noun

(en noun)

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

the delay before the echo of a sound

* Bible, Acts xxv. 17

Without any delay , on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.

* Macaulay

The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To dilute, temper.

(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:

Those dreadfull flames she also found delayd / And quenched quite like a consumed torch […].

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