hang

1. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.Examples: "The lights hung from the ceiling."; "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."Synonyms: be suspend, dangleintransitive

2. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.Examples: "The smoke hung in the room."; "It was a couple of days after the crash, with the smell of burning still hanging in the air from the incinerated wreckage of Coach H, where 31 passengers lost their lives, when I visited the West London site."Synonyms: float, hoverintransitive

3. (intransitive) To veer in one direction.Examples: "The jockey claimed that the horse hung towards the outside[…]"intransitive

4. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.intransitiveusually

5. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.Examples: "He hung his head in shame."Synonyms: drop, lowertransitive

6. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.Examples: "Hang those lights from the ceiling."; "to hang a door"; "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."Synonyms: suspend, hook, hook up, hang uptransitive