hanging 
hang·ing (haŋ′iŋ)
adjective
- attached to something overhead and not supported from below; suspended; pendulous
- designed for objects to be hung on
- leaning over; inclining; overhanging
- located on a steep slope or slant
- deserving, causing, or inclined to impose the death penalty
- designating or of indention in which the first line of a paragraph touches the left margin, the other lines being indented beneath it
- not yet decided; unsettled
- Archaic downcast
noun
- a suspending or being suspended
- a putting to death by hanging
- something hung on a wall, window, etc., as a drapery or tapestry
hanging
modif.
Preposition: from
- ceiling: This puzzle ball is a great one to have hanging from the ceiling.
Converse of object
- embroider: Some of the colored wool is used for the embroidered bed hanging.
- weave: These will be joined together to create a woven hanging for the Bedales Reading Room.
- leave: Rating: An interesting tale which is let down by a hurried ending which leaves the story hanging.
Adjective modifier
- ample: The double bedroom with en-suite bathroom and over bath shower has ample hanging and drawer space.
- judicial: The inquest jury returned a verdict of " Injury to the brain and spinal cord consequent upon judicial hanging " .
- colorful: Everyone enjoyed weaving squares of textured yarns which were then sewn into a colorful hanging.
- textile: Decorative artworks [ mosaic floors, wall murals, stained glass windows, textile hangings, photography, sculpture and paintings, etc.
- public: Michael Barrett faced the last public hanging in England.
- worth: It may be worth hanging on for a bit longer.
Modifies a noun
- basket: However with the high winds the hanging baskets had had to be removed.
- fruit: Much of the low hanging fruit has been already picked.
- rail: Price: £ 149.00 Delivery: FREE £ 149.00 Littlewoods mid sleeper bunk bed Hanging rail behind full length door.
- space: The door of the single hanging space opens from left to right.
Noun used with modifier
- tapestry: We sat waiting for the bride in a room painted in a cool shade of blue with tapestry wall hangings on each wall.
- wall: Fitted to the reverse with a wall hanging mount.
- silk: It was George III who introduced silk hangings to Windsor in the late 18th century.
- textile: A textile hanging which is delicate and purely decorative should not be described as a rug.
- tile: In Very Severe exposure zones the walls should be protected by some form of impervious cladding e.g. tile hanging or weather boarding.
- bed: Price: £ 149.00 Delivery: FREE £ 149.00 Littlewoods mid sleeper bunk bed Hanging rail behind full length door.
Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.
'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his; In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is; Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair.
Hanging is too good for him, said Mr Cruelty.
We live half our lives in Englandthere can't have been anything quite like this sincethe Roman colonists settled in Britain: not the hanging on with one hand, and the other hand full of seas.
Ye're a verra clever chiel', man, but ye wad be nane the waur o'a hanging.
A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.
For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow squareöthey're hangin' himto- day; They've taken of his buttons off an'cut his stripes away, An'they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.
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