Hanging vs Handing - What's the difference?
hanging | handing |
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.
The act by which something is handed to somebody.
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
As verbs the difference between hanging and handing
is that hanging is present participle of lang=en while handing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between hanging and handing
is that hanging is the act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide) while handing is the act by which something is handed to somebody.As an adjective hanging
is suspended.hanging
English
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.
Synonyms
* (execution) (l)Derived terms
* wall hangingSee also
* , portierehanding
English
(wikipedia handing)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued