hang: v. 1. [very common] 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. 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. To attach a peripheral device, esp. 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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