Hang Up

  

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Hang Up

Definitions: Hang Up

Hang Up

Verb

1. Put a telephone receiver back in its cradle.

2. Cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall".

3. Interrupt a telephone conversation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Hang Up

Synonym: hang (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hang Up

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

End

Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hang Up

English words defined with "hang up": Uphang. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hang up": ASSEMBLER-INSTALLER, GENERALbottom seine netter, bottom seinerDanish seiner, Dual In-Line PackageHANG IT UP, Hot Cross Bunsline assembler, aircraft, lithographic-camera operatornatural frequencyPHOTOGRAPHER, LITHOGRAPHIC, photolithographic process worker, process-camera operatorrolling dogslips. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hang Up

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You hang up on me again, I'll gut you like a fish, understand? (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

I must hang up now, Clarice. (Silence of the Lambs; writing credit: Ted Tally)

Please hang up and don't call back. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

Hello? Oh Hi.. I didn't mean to hang up on you before but you really do have the wrong number. (Hogan's Heroes; writing credit: Gail Allen; Gwen Bagni)

Lyrics

Now I must hang up the phone. ("Last Train to Clarksville"; performing artist: The Monkees)

I hang up the phone and I cry ("Shake Your Love"; performing artist: Debbie Gibson)

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone ("Part-time lover"; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Clever

Hang up and drive. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Hang Up (1970)

Hang Up (1969)

Song Titles

Don't Hang Up (performing artist: The Orlons)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hang Up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Thou Shalt Hang Up Thy Beliefs At The Plant Gate -- Wrong! Christians Unite Faith And Work [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • When God Puts You On Hold Don't Hang Up (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hang Up

Illustrations:
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Sounds Captioned with "Hang Up".

PlayCaption
Receiver; hang up; telephone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Hang Up

AuthorQuotation

Publilius Syrus

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Hang Up

Expressions using "hang up": a hang up hang up in the wrong place hang up on smb. hang up one's boots hang up one's fiddle. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hang Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hang up

14

hang up call

5

computer hang up

3

hang up inversion table

2

hang up and drive

2

eddy hang up

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hang Up

Language Translations for "hang up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vonoj (be late, delay, detain, hinder, hold up, linger, procrastinate, retard, slow down, wait), var në varëse, var (dangle, drape, hang, hook, rope, string up, suspend), ul receptorin e telefonit, shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, dangle, gloss, hang, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend, swing), ‏أنهى محادثة هاتفية (disconnect a call, ring off), ‏شنق (be executed, gibbet, hanging, strangle, strangulation). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), натрапчива мисъл, затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hitch, hook, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hold back, hold off, hold over, inhibit, postpone, put back, put over, retard, set back, sidetrack, slacken, slow, slow down, stave off, steady), прекъсвам телефонен разговор (hang off), поставям рекорд, постигам рекорд. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

掛好 (to hang up properly). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdržet (delay, detain, hold up, keep, retard), zavìsit (hang, hang out, ring off, sling, suspend), povìsit (hang, string up, tie up, turn off), komplex (complex, pack). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lopettaa puhelu (ring off). (various references)

   

French

  

raccrocher (hang up/to, to hangup, to hang-up). (various references)

   

German

  

auflegen (apply, bring out, display, issue, lay, lay up, print, put on, put up, replace, replacement, ring off, to apply, to apply (to), to hang-up, wrap in). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλείνω το τηλέφωνο (replace the receiver, ring off). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לתלות (hang, sling, string up, suspend), לסים שיחת טלפון (ring off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leteszi a telefonkagylót, késleltet (defer, delay, protract, retard, to delay, to intermit, to protract, to put back, to retard, to slacken, to slow, to stay, to throw back), felakaszt (hang, hook up, string up, suspend, to halter, to hang up, to hook on, to hook up, to scrag, to truss up), elnapol (adjourn, prorogue, put off, risen, rose, to adjourn, to hold over, to put off, to rise). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menggantung (adjurn, be suspended, hang). (various references)

   

Italian

  

appendere q.c.. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

電話'切る (to hang up the receiver), 吊し上'る (to hang up), 吊り上'る (to hang up, to lift, to raise, to suspend), 切る (to be through, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to pause, to punch, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off, to wear), で"わ'きる (to hang up the receiver), つりあ'る (to boost, to hang up, to lift, to pull in, to raise, to suspend), つるしあ'る (to conduct a kangaroo court, to hang up). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiettrimys (bafflement, balk, balk hinderance, ban, bar, barobstruction, constriction, disqualification, drag, drawback, handicap, hazard, hindrance, hold up, impediment, injunction, jam, obstacle, prevention, sanction, victimization). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anghay upay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sobra (balance, end, leftover, offal, offcut, over, overpoise, remainder, remnant, rest, waste), mania (crank, craze, crotchet, fad, furore, furred, habit, kink, mania), desligar (break, cut out, detach, disconnect, out, separate, shut off, switch off, to shut off, turn off, unbind, unlink, unplug, untie), aparecer (appear, be published, come on, come to light, emerge, perform, rise, show, show up, to appear, turn up). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lãsa de o parte (count out, lay aside, lay by, leave out of consideration, let alone), lãsa în suspensie, amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вешать телефонную трубку, откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hoard, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put off, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, shunt, store, suspend), навесить, навешивать, медлить (delay, draggle, hang fire, lag, linger, loiter, procrastinate, tarry), подвесить (suspend). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spustiti (bring down, drop, fall, keep down, lay down, lend, let down, lower, put down, set down, turn down), prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse), obesiti (gibbet, hang, sling, string, string up, suspend, tuck up), inhibicija (inhibition). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

suspender (abate, adjourn, ban, call off, catch, discontinue, fail, flunk, hang, hold up, knock off, lay aside, lay by, lay off, leave off, pip, pluck, reject, stay, stop, suspend), enganchar (attach, buttonhole, gaff, harness, hitch, hook, hook up, inveigle, put to, recruit, rope in, snag, to put to, to yoke), colgar el teléfono (ring off), colgar (append, dangle, droop, halter, hang, hang down, hang out, loll, loll out, put up, ring off, sag, sling, string up, to hangup, to hang-up, to replace the receiver, top), causar un retraso. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

upphänga (suspend), ständigt problem, fixering (binding, fix, fixation, fixing, mounting, setting, stare, staring). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

telefonu kapatmak, kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

asmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

підвісити, повісити (string up). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hang Up

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

suspendatur, suspende, suspendebant, suspendent, suspendentes, suspenderant, suspenderunt, suspendet, suspendi, suspendimus, suspendit, suspendite, suspensi, suspensis, suspenso, suspensus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Hang Up

LanguageDateSourceExodus Chapter 40, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai periqhseiV thn skhnhn kai panta ta authV agiaseiV kuklw
Latin405VulgateCircumdabisque atrium tentoriis et ingressum eius
Middle English1395WyclifAnd thow shalt enuyroun the porche with tentis into the comyng yn of it.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd make the court roude aboute, ad set vp the hagynge of the courte gate.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court-gate.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Hang Up

LanguageExodus Chapter 40, Verse 8
Bulgarian"а поставиш околния двор, и да окачиш покривката на дворния вход.
CebuanoUg ibutang mo ang sawang sa paglibut ug igabitay mo ang pabiyon sa pultahan sa sawang.
Chinese又 在 四 圍 立 院 帷 、 把 院 子 的 門 簾 挂 上 。
CroatianNaokolo napravi dvorište i objesi zastor nad dvorišnim ulazom.
DanishRejs Forgården rundt om og hæng Forhænget op foran Forgårdens Indgang.
DutchDaarna zult gij den voorhof rondom zetten, en gij zult het deksel ophangen aan de poort des voorhofs.
FinnishJa tee esipiha yltympäri ja pane uudin esipihan porttiin.
FrenchTu placeras le parvis l`entour, et tu mettras le rideau la porte du parvis.
Germanund den Vorhof stellen umher, und das Tuch in der Tür des Vorhofs aufhängen.
Haitian CreoleW'a moute galeri a fè wonn tant lan, w'a moute rido ki pou fèmen kote pou moun antre sou galeri a.
HungarianAzután állítsd fel köröskörül a pitvart, és a pitvar kapujára tedd rá a leplet.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKemudian pasanglah layar di sekeliling pelataran Kemah, dan gantungkan tirai pintu gerbang pelataran.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaKemudian dari pada itu hendaklah engkau mendirikan halaman itu kelilingnya dan menggantungkan tudungnya pada pintu halaman itu.
ItalianDisporrai il recinto tutt'attorno e metterai la cortina alla porta del recinto.
Korean또 뜰 주 위 에 포 장 을 치 뜰 문 에 장 을 달
MaoriMe whakatu ano te marae a tawhio noa, ka whakairi ai i te pa ki te kuwaha o te marae.
Modern GreekΚαι θελεις στησει την αυλην κυκλω και κρεμασει το καταπετασμα της πυλης της αυλης.
NorwegianOg så skal du sette op forgården rundt omkring og henge op teppet for porten til forgården.
PortugueseDepois levantarás as cortinas do átrio ao redor, e pendurarás o reposteiro da porta do átrio.   
RumanianSq awezi curtea de jur kmprejur, wi sq pui perdeaua la poarta curyii.
RussianЙ ПУФБЧШ "ЧПТ ЛТХЗПН Й ПЧЕУШ ЪБЧЕУХ Ч ЧПТПФБИ "ЧПТБ.
SpanishFinalmente pondrás el atrio alrededor y la cortina a la entrada del atrio.
SwedishOch du skall sätta upp förgårdshägnaden runt omkring och hänga upp förhänget för porten till förgården.
Thaiจงตั้งข้างฝาลานไว้รอบพลับพลา และติ"ม่านบังตาไว้ที่ประตูลานนั้น
UkrainianІ поставиш подвір'я навколо, і даси заслону брами подвір'я.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Hang Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hangup.

Words within the letters "a-g-h-n-p-u"

-2 letters: gaun, guan, hang, hung, pang, pugh, puna, pung.

-3 letters: gan, gap, gnu, gun, hag, hap, hug, hun, hup, nag, nah, nap, pah, pan, pug, pun, ugh.

-4 letters: ag, ah, an, ha, na, nu, pa, uh, un, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-n-p-u"
 

+1 letter: hangups.

 

+2 letters: sphagnum.

 

+3 letters: sphagnous, sphagnums, straphung, upheaping, upheaving.

 

+4 letters: agapanthus, galumphing, harumphing, purchasing, sulphating, uphoarding, upreaching.

 

+5 letters: harrumphing, monophagous, parachuting, pneumograph, prognathous, upgathering, uranography.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hang Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6E 67      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006E 0067      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267807325582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Bible Trace
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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