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hang
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hang

To freeze or lock up. If an application hangs without any dialog box indicating the reason, such as an out-of-paper condition, then the application has "crashed." See crash.

hang [haŋ]
(ordnance)
To lock the receiver or bolt of a gun in an open position.
1.hang - 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.hang - 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.hang - To attach a peripheral device, especially 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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