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 →

2) Hanging means being fixed up high with the bottom free, as coats hang on hooks. tree →

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 →
• She hid behind the hangings. tree →
• Coats were hanging on the hooks. tree →

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.
• Lily's brother started hanging around with the same older group, coming home late and snapping at everyone.
• Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because people are less tired and nothing is left hanging.
• A swing is a pendulum: a weight hanging from a point, going back and forth with its own steady rhythm.
• The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hanging» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.