hang
hang v. 1. 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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