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Hang vs. Chill — What's the Difference?

Hang vs. Chill — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hang and Chill

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Hang

To fasten from above with no support from below; suspend
Hung the hat on a peg.

Chill

An unpleasant feeling of coldness in the atmosphere, one's surroundings, or the body
The draughty chill of the castle
There was a chill in the air
Heat exhaustion symptoms include nausea, chills, dizziness and dehydration

Hang

To suspend or fasten so as to allow free movement at or about the point of suspension
Hang a door.

Chill

A metal mould, often cooled, designed to ensure rapid or even cooling of metal during casting.

Hang

To execute by hanging
They hanged the prisoner at dawn.
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Chill

Make (someone) cold
They were chilled by a sudden wind

Hang

Used to express exasperation or disgust
I'll be hanged! Hang it all!.

Chill

Horrify or frighten (someone)
The city was chilled by the violence

Hang

To alter the hem of (a garment) so as to fall evenly at a specified height.

Chill

Calm down and relax
They like to get home, have a bath, and chill out

Hang

To furnish, decorate, or appoint by suspending objects around or about
Hang a room with curtains.

Chill

Chilly
The chill grey dawn
The chill winds of public censure

Hang

To hold or incline downward; let droop
Hang one's head in sorrow.

Chill

Very relaxed or easy-going
The island is really chill and laid-back
In general, I am a pretty chill guy

Hang

(Informal) To make (a turn in a specific direction)
At the next intersection, hang a right.

Chill

A moderate but penetrating coldness.

Hang

To attach to a wall
Hang wallpaper.

Chill

A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.

Hang

To display by attaching to a wall or other structure
Hung four new paintings in the foyer.

Chill

A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy
Bad news that put a chill on the celebration.

Hang

(Informal) To give (a nickname or label) to someone.

Chill

A sudden numbing fear or dread.

Hang

To deadlock (a jury) by failing to render a unanimous verdict.

Chill

Moderately cold; chilly
A chill wind.

Hang

(Baseball) To throw (a pitch) in such a manner as to fail to break.

Chill

Not warm and friendly; distant
A chill greeting.

Hang

(Computers) To cause (a computer system) to halt so that input devices, such as the keyboard or the mouse, do not function.

Chill

Discouraging; dispiriting
“Chill penury repressed their noble rage” (Thomas Gray).

Hang

To be attached from above with no support from below.

Chill

(Slang) Calm or relaxed
“As my meditation routine grew more stable...my already laid-back demeanor grew positively chill” (David Gelles).

Hang

To die as a result of hanging.

Chill

To affect with or as if with cold.

Hang

To remain suspended or poised over a place or an object; hover
Rain clouds hanging low over the corn fields.

Chill

To lower in temperature; cool.

Hang

To attach oneself as a dependent or an impediment; cling.

Chill

To make discouraged; dispirit.

Hang

To incline downward; droop.

Chill

(Metallurgy) To harden (a metallic surface) by rapid cooling.

Hang

To depend
Everything hangs on the committee's decision.

Chill

To be seized with cold.

Hang

To pay strict attention
A student who hangs on the professor's every word.

Chill

To become cold or set
Jelly that chills quickly.

Hang

To remain unresolved or uncertain
His future hung in the balance.

Chill

(Metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.

Hang

To fit the body in loose lines
A dress that hangs well.

Chill

To calm down or relax. Often used with out.

Hang

To be on display, as in a gallery.

Chill

To pass time idly; loiter.

Hang

(Baseball) To fail to break or move in the intended way, as a curve ball.

Chill

To spend time with someone in a relaxed manner; hang out together.

Hang

To be imminent; loom
The threat hanging over us.

Chill

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
There was a chill in the air.

Hang

To be or become burdensome
Time hung heavy on my hands.

Chill

A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
I felt a chill when the wind picked up.

Hang

(Computers) To be halted, as a computer system, so that input devices do not function
The power surge caused my computer to hang, so I had to reboot it.

Chill

An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.
His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.

Hang

To spend one's free time in a certain place. Often used with around or out
Liked to hang out at the pool hall.

Chill

An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..

Hang

To pass time idly; loiter. Often used with around or out
Spent the evening hanging at home.
Hung out for an hour before going to the play.

Chill

The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

Hang

To keep company; see socially. Often used with around or out
Hangs around with kids from a different school.

Chill

A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.

Hang

The way in which something hangs.

Chill

Calmness; equanimity.

Hang

A downward inclination or slope.

Chill

A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

Hang

Particular meaning or significance.

Chill

Moderately cold or chilly.
A chill wind was blowing down the street.

Hang

(Informal) The proper method for doing, using, or handling something
Finally got the hang of it.

Chill

Unwelcoming; not cordial.
Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.

Hang

A suspension of motion; a slackening.

Chill

(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.

Hang

(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
The lights hung from the ceiling.

Chill

(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
That new movie was chill, man.

Hang

(intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
The smoke hung in the room.

Chill

(slang) Okay, not a problem.
Sorry about that. —It's chill.

Hang

(intransitive) To veer in one direction.

Chill

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
Chill before serving.

Hang

To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.

Chill

(intransitive) To become cold.
In the wind he chilled quickly.

Hang

(transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
He hung his head in shame.

Chill

To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.

Hang

(transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
Hang those lights from the ceiling.
To hang a door

Chill

To become hard by rapid cooling.

Hang

To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide. Category:en:Capital punishment
The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.

Chill

To relax; to lie back.
Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.

Hang

To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
You will hang for this, my friend.

Chill

To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
Hey, we should chill this weekend.

Hang

(used in maledictions) To damn.

Chill

To smoke marijuana.
On Friday night do you wanna chill?

Hang

To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.

Chill

To discourage, depress.
Censorship chills public discourse.

Hang

(transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.

Chill

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

Hang

(transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.

Chill

A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

Hang

(transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.

Chill

A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

Hang

To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

Chill

An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

Hang

(transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
One obstinate juror can hang a jury.

Chill

The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.

Hang

To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works.
When I push this button the program hangs.

Chill

Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.

Hang

To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
The program has a bug that can hang the system.

Chill

Affected by cold.

Hang

To cause a piece to become vulnerable to capture.
If you move there, you'll hang your rook.

Chill

Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

Hang

To be vulnerable to capture.
In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.

Chill

Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

Hang

To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.

Chill

To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
When winter chilled the day.

Hang

To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).

Chill

To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.

Hang

The way in which something hangs.
This skirt has a nice hang.

Chill

To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

Hang

A mass of hanging material.

Chill

To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

Hang

A slackening of motion.

Chill

Coldness due to a cold environment

Hang

A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

Chill

An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
A frisson of surprise shot through him

Hang

(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
We sometimes get system hangs.

Chill

A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

Hang

A grip, understanding.

Chill

A sudden numbing dread

Hang

(colloquial)

Chill

Depress or discourage;
The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers

Hang

The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
I don't give a hang.
They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.

Chill

Make cool or cooler;
Chill the food

Hang

A hangout.

Chill

Loose heat;
The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm

Hang

A person that someone hangs out with.

Chill

Uncomfortably cool;
A chill wind
Chilly weather

Hang

Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

Hang

Alternative spelling of Hang

Hang

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; - often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.

Hang

To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; - said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.

Hang

To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.

Hang

To put to death by suspending by the neck; - a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.

Hang

To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures, trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; - said of a wall, a room, etc.
Hung be the heavens with black.
And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils.

Hang

To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.

Hang

To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head.

Hang

To prevent from reaching a decision, esp. by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous; as, one obstinate juror can hang a jury.

Hang

To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.

Hang

To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.

Hang

To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

Hang

To hold for support; to depend; to cling; - usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.

Hang

To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden.

Hang

To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; - usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.

Hang

To lean or incline; to incline downward.
To decide which way hung the victory.
His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung.

Hang

To slope down; as, hanging grounds.

Hang

To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.
A noble stroke he lifted high,Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fellOn the proud crest of Satan.

Hang

Of a ball: To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of ground.

Hang

To fail to curve, break, or drop as intended; - said of pitches, such as curve balls or sliders.

Hang

To cease to operate normally and remain suspended in some state without performing useful work; - said of computer programs, computers, or individual processes within a program; as, when using Windows 3.1, my system would hang and need rebooting several times a day.

Hang

The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.

Hang

Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.

Hang

A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

Hang

A special way of doing something;
He had a bent for it
He had a special knack for getting into trouble
He couldn't get the hang of it

Hang

The way a garment hangs;
He adjusted the hang of his coat

Hang

A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms

Hang

Be suspended or hanging;
The flag hung on the wall

Hang

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

Hang

Kill by hanging;
The murdered was hanged on Friday

Hang

Let drop or droop;
Hang one's head in shame

Hang

Fall or flow in a certain way;
This dress hangs well
Her long black hair flowed down her back

Hang

Be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive;
This worry hangs on my mind
The cloud of suspicion hangs over her

Hang

Give heed (to);
The children in the audience attended the recital quietly
She hung on his every word
They attended to everything he said

Hang

Be suspended or poised;
Heavy fog hung over the valley

Hang

Hold on tightly or tenaciously;
Hang on to your father's hands
The child clung to his mother's apron

Hang

Be exhibited;
Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum

Hang

Prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury

Hang

Decorate or furnish with something suspended;
Hang wallpaper

Hang

Be placed in position as by a hinge;
This cabinet door doesn't hang right!

Hang

Place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction;
Hang a door

Hang

Of meat, in order to get a gamey taste;
Hang the venison for a few days

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