Translation of hang in Spanish:

hang

colgar, v.

Pronunciation /hæŋ/ /haŋ/

See Spanish definition of colgar

transitive verb hung, hung

1
- 1.1(suspend)
  (dress/coat/picture/curtain) colgar
  (washing) tender
  to hang sth with sth
  we hung the trees with Chinese lanterns
  the streets were hung with flags
  the play was simply a peg on which to hang her political message — la obra no era más que un vehículo para su mensaje político
  Above it all, dark shapes hang suspended, almost motionless, swaying with the breeze.
  His arms hung down limply, one over the edge of the couch.
  From the side, you can check for the correct posture: spine straight but tilted, arms hanging freely and knees slightly flexed.
  I let out a sigh and followed her up, my arms hanging limply at my sides.
  Let your arms hang naturally and freely, and you'll be fine.
  During these first few minutes of the dance, he had been letting his arms hang limply at his sides.
  There is a massive tree in front of the house and an old tyre swing hangs from its ancient arms.
  It also had a hood with a cute little pom-pom hanging off the strings made to adjust the hood.
  I clambered out onto the tree limb below my dorm window and hanging from the lowest branch dropped to the ground.
  Eddie fell backwards, stumbling over the edge of the trail, but caught on with one hand, perilously hanging over the precipice.
  She is clutching at the grass, precariously hanging over the cliff and screaming as crumbling rocks fall to the water below.
  A gigantic chandelier hangs down from the ceiling, right above her head.
  Overhead, coloured banners hung from wooden rafters.
  The lanterns hang from trees like giant pods.
  A lantern hung from the pointed roof, and light could be seen from the cracks between the wood boards.
  Four banners hang in the front of the theater above the hardwood stage.
  The large wooden gates are adorned with red hearts and streamers and white paper doves have been hung from the trees.
  Different colored paper lanterns hung overhead, not really doing much to light up the place but looking very pretty all the same.
  Many restaurants have smoking and non-smoking areas separated only with a sign hanging from the ceiling.
  A rusted ceiling fan hangs from the remains of the roof.
  Large pictures of fifties stars hung along the walls and a song from the musical Grease played on the jukebox in the corner.
  They looked at everything from the pictures hung neatly on the wall, to the conditions of the easy chairs and beds.
  Tammy and Greg's wedding picture was framed and hung perfectly on the wall.
  She sighed as she stole a single glance at the picture hanging from the wall.
  The halls had a slight musty odor and there were spots where pictures used to hang from the walls.
  The show is called Manet Face to Face, which explains the exciting way in which these two pictures are hung, on opposite walls, with you caught in the crossfire.
  To the uninitiated, they're just a collection of yellowing maps hung up on the walls.
  Against one wall Osborn has hung three modest watercolour heads of a boy.
  An animal skin rug covered the floor and a moose's head hung from the wall.
  Inside, the bar features a riot of décor: A stuffed swordfish hangs from the wall.
  Even now, a map of France still hangs from his bedroom wall.
  His photo hangs from a wall of the room where Neesha, her husband and their two children eat and sleep.
  But her mother is so proud of what her daughter has done that the calendar will be hanging from her wall next year, and Ellie's grandmother has also ordered a copy.
  Inside, dried hops and brasses hang from the rural-themed walls and a central bar acts serves both the games room and main lounge.
  It is equipped with a kitchen, bathroom and lounge, where framed posters of his books hang proudly on the walls.
  The resulting painting still hangs on the living room wall.
  A tiger rug lay on the floor and a small painting hung over the head of the bed.
  I turned my head sideways and caught a glimpse at the long mirror hanging in my closet.
  Honour was done to the two founders, Drinkwater and Flyers, whose portraits were hung in the reading rooms.
  Now there is a new band portrait hanging next to the original on the clubhouse wall.
- 1.2(put in position)
  (door/gate) colocar
  (door/gate) montar
  to hang wallpaper — empapelar
  He noticed that the pendulums of the two suspended clocks, hanging side by side from a common support, were swinging together.
  Hanging a door correctly is one of the most satisfying jobs in the home improvement world, but it's often the most challenging.
  If you hang the gate as you are suggesting it will sag from the hinges and eventually just scrape on the floor.
  The doors had been hung perfectly, each one swinging effortlessly and noiselessly and fitting perfectly into its frame.
  Learning how to hang a window is a project that depends on a number of factors, including whether or not the window is to be installed in new construction or an existing wall.
  The panels are also more rigid, making them easier to carry and hang.
- 1.3Cooking
  (game) manir
  Anyone who can tell you how long to hang game, or any meat, unless you are using a butcher's chiller, is either a liar or a prophet.
  Their Aberdeen Angus feed on rich grass and organic hay, and the meat is hung for a minimum of 14 days to ensure optimum taste.
  Red meat is hung for at least 28 days, making for a memorable steak.
  The flavour could be deeper if the meat was hung for longer.
  It seemed like the normal hooks that would have been used by the butcher to hang meat had been modified or replaced with massive fish hooks.
  He has his own herd of beasts and hangs the meat longer than anyone I know.
  Think of the money to be made renting out basements to hang meat and transforming kitchens into dark rooms.
  Now hang the meat in a cool, well ventilated place for another day or two.
  I raise and hang my own beef, from Devon Ruby cattle, here on my small Dorset farm.
  The interior is equipped with rows of nails or poles suspended from the rafters for hanging the cured hams.
  There is game and meat to hang, lemon tarts to be made.
  It was claimed that before they were really ready for cooking, grouse should be hung until maggots dropped out of them.
  You could see where the old range had been and the rings from which the hunks of meat would have been hung.
  We are one of the few farm shops that source our meat locally, hang it in our own cold room and butcher it on site to customers' requirements.
  I had worried that the dressing would be formidably strong, but the meat had been hung for a lengthy period and was far more gamey than that used by most oriental restaurants.
  There Angus and Jimmy would skin and hang the carcass.
  The meat still needs to be properly hung to improve texture and flavour, but it doesn't require marinades and all manner of tricks to make it edible.
  All the beef is locally sourced and hung in a cold house on site for up to six weeks before being butchered.
2
Computing
colgar
dejar colgado
- This article has all you need to know about issues with internal modems that may hang your system.
- Click on help, a browser window opens, click on connect to Ethernet, and it hangs forever.
- Upon reboot, however, the system hung at the Windows startup screen.
- An erratically fluctuating power supply can wreak havoc on any system and may cause it to hang or shut down spontaneously.
- If the installation hangs, you have to either delete the installed folder or reboot.

( hanged, hanged, hung, hung)

3
- 3.1(kill)
  ahorcar
  colgar
  he hanged himself — se ahorcó
  He was grabbed from the arresting officer by a gang of masked men who tied a rope around his neck and hanged him.
  The most the state can do to you is lock you away for the rest of your life, or hang you by the neck until you are dead.
  The kidnappers drove to an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of the city where they tied a rope around the neck of their captive and hanged him from a locust tree.
  India's last execution was in 1995, when an auto-rickshaw driver convicted in the serial murders of prostitutes was hanged.
  Three days after he was hanged, public executions were abolished under the Capital Amendment Act of May 29th 1868.
  Her 25-year-old lorry driver husband was hanged for the murder of the child.
  In 1903, he was hanged for the murder of a rancher's 15-year-old son, a crime he most likely did not commit.
  The revelations silenced most supporters and he was hanged in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916 with scarcely a murmur of protest.
  Three innocent people were hanged for their alleged part in his murder.
  For many New Englanders, capital punishment relates more to the era of witches being hanged than to the current day.
  The government revealed recently, only in reply to a question in parliament, that 340 people were hanged between 1991 and 2000.
  In 1667 three men were hanged at York for the murder of a Wakefield woman suspected of bewitching a man.
  Although it does seem like a dim and distant memory now, I still remember people being hanged in Britain during my lifetime.
  His wife told the jury she thought she was going to die after he wrapped electric cable around her neck, pulled it tight and then tried to hang her.
  The last execution here took place in 1997 when eight prisoners were hanged.
  The last time a person was hanged in South Australia was 1964.
  Between October 1952 and November 1954, 756 rebels were hanged, most for offences less than murder.
  In August, he was hanged on Gallows Hill, one of 19 people executed for witchcraft.
  She was hanged three weeks later despite public uproar and thousands of people demonstrating in the street.
  Students were publicly hanged every year following 1978, while exiled opponents were assassinated.
- 3.2mainly British informal, dated (in interj phrases)
  hang it! — ¡caray! informal, dated
  I'll be hanged if I'm going to stand for any more nonsense from her! — ¡no pienso aguantarle más tonterías!

intransitive verb hung

1
- 1.1(be suspended)
  colgar
  pender literary
  estar colgado
  to hang by/from/on sth — colgar de algo
  
  it hung by an iron chain
  a splendid chandelier hung from the ceiling
  it's hanging on a peg
  it's hanging on the wall
  the picture had always hung there — el cuadro siempre había estado (colgado) allí
  your coat is hanging in the hall — tu abrigo está colgado en el vestíbulo
  The cigarette smoke hung like a thick bluish white haze throughout the room.
  Smoke hung thickly all around, like a dense fog, only more suffocating.
  On June 1, 1921 the smoke hung like a grey, acrid cloud over Greenwood.
  People dance on the beach as smoke hangs dramatically in the air.
  A dense fug of tobacco smoke hangs over them as they furiously puff away.
  Even with the cooler weather and some rain, acrid smoke still hangs over the most ravaged areas.
  To the south, a billowing black cloud of smoke was hanging ominously over the city.
  I watched her drag on her cigarette, the smoke hanging between us.
  A cloud of acrid smoke is hanging over the city and on the roads all the shops are closed for fear of rioting.
  Real smoke hangs over the audience, clouding our vision and our senses.
  She gazed down the steep face at the mist which still hung imposingly below them.
  The smoke hung like a heavy veil over the doorway, stinging his nostrils as he stepped through it.
  Shrugging, he pushed open the door to the bar and almost choked on the smoke that hung thickly in the air.
  The Gig hall was dark, and the air was thick and heavy with the stale cigarette smoke that hung there.
  Another rocket is fired, and the smoke hangs ominously over the square.
  I can't see the fire but smoke hangs thinly everywhere especially around the lights.
  A massive plume of smoke was hanging over the city, but the precise location or cause of the blast was not immediately known.
  Large, puffy clouds hung in the air and seagulls flew around in the pale blue sky.
  But now you've got a black cloud hanging over your head.
  The mist hanging just above the buildings softened the colors and lowered the parameters of the scene to the sidewalks and the strolling hordes.
- 1.2(hover)
  (fog/smoke) flotar
  (bird) planear
  (bird) cernerse
  to hang over sth
  the mist hung over the marshes
  a question mark hangs over the future of the industry
- 1.3
  (clothing/fabric) caer
  that skirt hangs very well — esa falda tiene muy buena caída / cae muy bien
  The soft fabric hung perfectly from Penelope's curves and the bright white complemented her dark skin.
  She made a rather scrawny boy and Bryson's garments hung loosely on her form, but she would pass.
  If you simply lay the pattern pieces anywhere on the fabric, ignoring the grain-lines, the finished garment will not hang right.
  Letting garments out is more difficult because you usually need to open the seams so the garment can hang properly on your body.
  As you can see from the photos the suede skirt hangs softly almost in pleats, and the wool version shows the godet detail quite well.
  A maroon velvety dress hung well on her shoulders.
  His red, cap-sleeved shirt hung loosely around his waist, covering the top of his pants.
  Nighy looks older than his years, with a tall, angular frame on which a dark blue suit hangs loosely as if on a clothes horse.
  He was similarly dressed except that his shirt hung more loosely over his body.
  A dark leather jacket hung loosely off a pair of wide shoulders.
  A black, grungy trench coat hung loosely over his lanky frame, and his face was hidden in the darkness under a fedora hat.
  The dress hung loosely on me, except the bodice, which was very tight.
  His grey, three piece suit hung loosely from his shoulders as if it had originally been tailored for a much larger man.
  The white, gray, and green clothing hung extremely loosely on her small body but she was content with it.
  A tailored jacket hung elegantly from his broad shoulders, giving him a debonair look.
  He nodded and leaned against the counter, his gray shirt hung loosely on his muscular frame.
  He places his arms into a jacket obviously tailored for someone else, it hangs loosely, reaching almost to his knees.
  Not only does the drainpipe leg hang badly with most footwear but it emphasises the fuller hips and rear.
  The purpose of shoulder pads is to square out your shoulders and to help your suit hang properly.
  Lining makes the vest hang better over your other clothes and also makes it easier to slip on and off.

( hanged, hanged, hung, hung)

2
(be executed)
she thought he would hang for it — creyó que lo mandarían a la horca / lo ahorcarían por ello
3
Computing
quedarse colgado

noun

1
caída feminine
I don't like the hang of that dress — no me gusta la caída que tiene / como cae ese vestido

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