Difference between Cling and Hang

What is the difference between Cling and Hang?

Cling as a noun is fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. while Hang as a noun is the way in which something hangs.

Cling

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.

Example sentence: Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Hang

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be or remain suspended.To float, as if suspended.To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger or the like.To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.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.To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard or mouse.To exhibit (an object).To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).To decorate (something) with hanging objects.To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.To be vulnerable to capture.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The way in which something hangs.A grip, understandingAn instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

Example sentence: If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

We hope you now know whether to use Cling or Hang in your sentence.

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