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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A condition in which the central processor of a computer is attempting to perform an illegal or forbiden operation or in which it is continually repeating the same routine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A situation in which a tree is lodged in another and prevented from falling to the ground. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hangup (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "HANGUP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HANGUP" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "HANGUP": to hangup. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hangup | 15 |
502 connection hangup | 4 |
caller hangup id | 3 |
by dtr hangup hardware lowering | 2 |
accept hangup socket | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HANGUP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心烦 (Annoyance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hænger (dropper, hanger, overhead contact system dropper), hængen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onvoorziene stop (hang-up, unexpected halt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jumiutuminen (deadly embrace, hang-up, tumbling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | immobilisation (unexpected halt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Blockierung des Arbeitsablaufes, Blockierung (blockade, blockage, blocking, deadlock, locking, obstruction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κουρνιασμένο δένδρο, μπλοκάρισμα (blocking, clutching, interlock, locking, mute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pianta appollaiata, arresto (apprehension, arrest, capture, check, deadlock, detention, halt, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anguphay bloqueamento (deadlock, latching, lock out, locking, lock-out, protection). (various references) зависание (starvation, suspension). (various references) atasco (bind, clog, clogging, jam, traffic jam), arbol colgado. (various references) hängning (hanging). (various references) takıntı (bee, hobbyhorse, idee fixe, obsession), sorun (case, cause, difficulty, funeral, grievance, hurdle, ill, issue, knot, look out, packet, problem, proposition, question, trouble), mesele (affair, business, business deal, case, crux, issue, matter, point, problem, proposition, question, Res, shebang, topic), duygu karmaşası (ambivalence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HANGUP": hangups. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| 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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4E 47 55 50 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. --. ..- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A N G U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004E 0047 0055 0050 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)423548415550 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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