висе́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• dangle verb To hang loosely, swinging freely.
• 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.
• hanging adj Suspended or dangling from something.

Senses

висе́ть is used for these senses in English:

• dangle (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
• dangle (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
• 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) To float, as if suspended.
• hanging Suspended.

dangle — full definition

1. verb To hang loosely, swinging freely.
2. verb To offer something as an enticing possibility.

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.

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