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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