hangen — meaning in English

English meaning

• depend verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
• hang verb To attach something at the top so it hangs down freely, or to be suspended in this way.

Senses

hangen is used for these senses in English:

• depend (now, literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
• hang (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
• hang (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
• hang (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

depend — full definition

1. verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
2. verb To vary according to circumstances; used to say an answer isn't fixed.

hang — full definition

1. verb To attach something at the top so it hangs down freely, or to be suspended in this way.
2. verb To kill someone by suspending them by the neck.
3. verb To spend time somewhere in a relaxed, informal way (often "hang out").
4. noun A general understanding of how to do or use something.

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