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hang: v. 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
“The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed
drive”. See wedged,
hung. 2. To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until something
happens. “The program displays a menu and then hangs until you type
a character.” Compare block. 3. To attach a peripheral device, esp. in the construction
‘hang off’: “We're going to hang another tape drive off
the file server.” Implies a device attached with cables, rather than
something that is strictly inside the machine's chassis.
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