hang up the receiver

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• hang up — verb 1. put a telephone receiver back in its cradle (Freq. 8) • Hypernyms: ↑replace, ↑put back • Verb Frames: Somebody s Somebody s something 2. cause to be hanging or suspended …   Useful english dictionary

• receiver — n. part of a telephone 1) to pick up the receiver 2) to hang up, put down, replace a receiver 3) a telephone receiver radio 4) a shortwave receiver one who catches a forward pass (Am. football) 5) to hit; spot a receiver (to spot a receiver down… …   Combinatory dictionary

• hang — hangable, adj. hangability, n. /hang/, v., hung or (esp. for 4, 5, 20, 24) hanged; hanging; n. v.t. 1. to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend. 2. to attach or suspend so as to …   Universalium

• hang — [c]/hæŋ / (say hang) verb (hung or, especially for capital punishment and suicide, hanged, hanging) –verb (t) 1. to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above; suspend. 2. to suspend so as to allow free movement as on a… …  

• hang — v 1. suspend, sling, pend, set; hang up, hook up, hitch. 2. truss up, string up, gibbet, garrote, bowstring, bring to the gallows; noose, neck, Sl. stretch, strangle. 3. drape, curtain, deck, cover; trail, flow, descend, slope. 4. attach, annex,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• hang up — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. cease speaking, replace the receiver, finish a telephone call, ring off, hang up the phone, put off, buzz off*. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired: delay, detain, hold up …   English dictionary for students

• hang up — {v.} 1. To place on a hook, peg, or hanger. * /When the children come to school, they hang up their coats in the cloakroom./ 2a. To place a telephone receiver back on its hook and break the connection. * /Carol s mother told her she had talked… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• hang up — {v.} 1. To place on a hook, peg, or hanger. * /When the children come to school, they hang up their coats in the cloakroom./ 2a. To place a telephone receiver back on its hook and break the connection. * /Carol s mother told her she had talked… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• hang — [haŋ] vt. HUNG, hanging; for vt. 3 & vi. 5, hanged is the preferred pt. & pp. hung [ME hangen, with form < OE vi. hangian & ON vi. hanga; senses < these, also < OE vt. hon & ON caus. v. hengja; akin to Ger vi. hangen, vt. hängen, to… …   English World dictionary

• The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party — is a common name for the annual college football game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, one of the great rivalries in college football; it is officially known as the Florida Georgia/Georgia Florida… …   Wikipedia

• hang\ up — v 1. To place on a hook, peg, or hanger. When the children come to school, they hang up their coats in the cloakroom. 2a. To place a telephone receiver back on its hook and break the connection. Carol s mother told her she had talked long enough… …   Словарь американских идиом