What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Mounting vs Hanging - What's the difference?

mounting | hanging |

As adjectives the difference between mounting and hanging

is that mounting is that continues to mount; steadily accumulating while hanging is suspended.

As verbs the difference between mounting and hanging

is that mounting is while hanging is .

As nouns the difference between mounting and hanging

is that mounting is something mounted; an attachment while hanging is (uncountable) the act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to execute that person (or to commit suicide).

mounting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
    • mounting debts

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something mounted; an attachment.
  • The act of one who mounts.
  • * 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
    • The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.

    hanging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Suspended.
    • The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
  • (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.

    • Derived terms

    * hanging garden * hanging loop * hanging participle

    Noun

    (wikipedia hanging)
  • (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? }}
    Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
  • (countable) A public event at which a person is hanged.
    • The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
  • (countable) Anything wide, high and rather thin that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, wallpaper or posters).
    • The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
  • (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
    • I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.

    Synonyms

    * (execution) (l)

    Derived terms

    * wall hanging

    See also

    * , portiere