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, especially 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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