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# hanging

«hanging» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cloth such as a curtain or tapestry hung on a wall for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hangings); verb form of hang (hang, hangs, hung, hanging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hanging is a cloth such as a curtain or tapestry hung on a wall for decoration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hanging/#m1)

2) Hanging means being fixed up high with the bottom free, as coats hang on hooks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hanging/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in palaces of tales, the rich cloths hung on the walls; «behind the hangings» means behind the curtains

### examples

- Golden hangings covered the walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hanging/#x1)
- She hid behind the hangings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hanging/#x2)
- Coats were hanging on the hooks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hanging/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/6/)
- [Lily's brother started hanging around with the same older group, coming home late and snapping at everyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/6/)
- [Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because people are less tired and nothing is left hanging.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/19/)
- [A swing is a pendulum: a weight hanging from a point, going back and forth with its own steady rhythm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/0/)
- [The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.791/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hanging» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hanging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.