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say it: HANG-ing
hanging is a noun meaning "decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window". It carries 3 recorded senses.
decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
“the cold castle walls were covered with hangings”
a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
“in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment”
the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
“there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hanging come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.