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Antonyms for hang together

Grammar : Verb
Spell : hang
Phonetic Transcription : hæŋ


Definition of hang together

Origin :
  • a fusion of Old English hon "suspend" (transitive, class VII strong verb; past tense heng, past participle hangen), and Old English hangian (weak, intransitive, past tense hangode) "be suspended;" also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja "suspend," and hanga "be suspended." All from Proto-Germanic *khang- (cf. Old Frisian hangia, Dutch hangen, German hängen), from PIE *kank- "to hang" (cf. Gothic hahan, Hittite gang- "to hang," Sanskrit sankate "wavers," Latin cunctari "to delay;" see also second element in Stonehenge). As a method of execution, in late Old English (but originally specifically of crucifixion).
  • Hung emerged as past participle 16c. in northern England dialect, and hanged endured only in legal language (which tends to be conservative) and metaphors extended from it (I'll be hanged). Teen slang sense of "spend time" first recorded 1951; hang around "idle, loiter" is from 1830, and hang out (v.) is from 1811. Hang fire (1781) was originally used of guns that were slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge. To let it all hang out "be relaxed and uninhibited" is from 1967.
  • As in unite : verb combine; join together
  • As in cohere : verb agree, conform
Example sentences :
  • If we had children it might be righteous to hang together, for their sakes.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Four or five of the girls just hang together and they think they are everything.
  • Extract from : « The Girls at Mount Morris » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
  • His tale would all hang together, simply because it was the truth.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Lost Himself » by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want of company.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Wives of Windsor » by William Shakespeare
  • We must hang together on this, or we'll all hang separately!
  • Extract from : « Caesar Rodney's Ride » by Henry Fisk Carlton
  • We all hang together, because any one left here would be helpless.
  • Extract from : « Young Alaskans in the Far North » by Emerson Hough
  • We are one flesh; and we will hang together to the end of life, or at the end of it, as the case may be.
  • Extract from : « The Young Lieutenant » by Oliver Optic
  • Sensation and memory, Stoic doctrines of, hang together, iv.
  • Extract from : « Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 » by Plotinos (Plotinus)
  • Memory and sensation, Stoic doctrines of, hang together, iv.
  • Extract from : « Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 » by Plotinos (Plotinus)

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