Hanging vs Drooping - What's the difference?
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Suspended.
(chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
(uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide).
* {{quote-book
, year = 1728
, chapter = The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune
, title = The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
, volume = 2
, first = Thomas
, last = Otway
, authorlink = Thomas Otway
, location = London
, page = 37
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=yF1AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37
, passage = No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging . Who would not ?teal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?
}}
(countable) A public event at which a person is hanged.
(countable) Anything wide, high and rather thin that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, wallpaper or posters).
(uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
Hanging is a related term of drooping.
As verbs the difference between hanging and drooping
is that hanging is while drooping is .As adjectives the difference between hanging and drooping
is that hanging is suspended while drooping is that droops or droop.As nouns the difference between hanging and drooping
is that hanging is (uncountable) the act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide) while drooping is an instance of something drooping.hanging
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
Derived terms
* hanging garden * hanging loop * hanging participleNoun
(wikipedia hanging)- Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
- The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
- The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
- I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.
