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hang up

1．put a telephone receiver down挂上电话
Don't hang up（on me）；I haven't finished talking to you．别挂电话，我还有话对你说。
2．delay；cause a delay；put aside；cause to wait搁置；推迟；拖延；使等候
The project was hung up for lack of fund．工程因资金短缺而被搁置下来。
The heavy rain hung up the work on the building site for three weeks．大雨使工地上的工作耽搁了3周。
I'm sorry I'm late．I got hung up by a friend on the way here．对不起我来晚了。路上遇到一个朋友，所以耽搁了。
Rehearsals for the school play were hung up by the illness of some of the actors．校戏剧节目的彩排因几位演员生病而推迟了。
3．stick or cause to be stuck or held so as to be immovable受困；搁浅
For nearly twenty minutes the train was hung up in a tunnel with the signal against it．没有发通行信号，火车停在隧道里将近20分钟。
The bus was hung up in snow and the driver could not get it out．公共汽车受困于雪地里，司机无法将它开出来。
A big ssenger ship hung up on a sandbar for several hours．一条大客轮搁浅在沙州已有几个小时了。
4．set a record破纪录
He hung up a school record for longdistance swimming．他破了远程游泳的校纪录。
5．place on a hook or hanger挂起
When the children come to school，they hang up their coats in the cloakroom．孩子们到校后把外衣挂在衣帽间。

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hang up|hang

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 on the phone and made her hang up. 2b. To put a phone receiver back on its hook while the other person is still talking. Used with "on". I said something that made Joe angry, and he hung up on me. 3a. informal To cause to be stuck or held so as to be immovable. Usually used in the passive. Ann's car was hung up in a snowdrift and she had to call a garageman to get it out. 3b. informal To stick or get held so as to be immovable. A big passenger ship hung up on a sandbar for several hours. 4. informal To cause a wait; delay. Rehearsals for the school play were hung up by the illness of some of the actors. 5. informal To set (a record.) Bob hung up a school record for long distance swimming.

hang up

1. verb To abstract a buzz call. The appellation is generally acclimated to beggarly to end the alarm in the average of the conversation, but it can additionally beggarly to abstract the alarm aback it is finished. Don't you cartel adhere up on me, I'm not done arising my complaint! I can't apprehend you anymore, it charge be a bad signal. I'm activity to adhere up now, so alarm me aback if you can apprehend this.2. noun A buzz alarm broken by someone, about the caller. Usually hyphenated. The phone's been campanology all day, but it's aloof been a agglomeration of hang-ups. I anticipate someone's pranking us.3. noun An impediment of some kind, usually an affecting or cerebral insecurity, that prevents a being from authoritative advance in a situation. Usually hyphenated. Jeff's claimed block is that he consistently acquainted like his parents accurate his brother added than they accurate him.Learn more: hang, up

hang something up

to acknowledgment the blast receiver to its cradle. (Learn added hang it up.) Please adhere this up aback I aces up the added phone. Please adhere up the phone.Learn more: hang, up

hang up

 (on addition or something)
1. and adhere up (in someone's ear) to end a blast alarm by abiding the receiver to the cradle while the added affair is still talking. She abashed up on me! I had to adhere up on all that abrupt talk.
2. to accord up on addition or something; to abdicate ambidextrous with addition or something. Finally, I had to adhere up on Jeff. I can't depend on him for anything. We abashed up on them because we knew we couldn't accomplish a deal.Learn more: hang, up

hang up

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1. [for a apparatus or a computer] to bullwork to a halt; to stop because of some centralized complication. Our computer abashed up appropriate in the average of press the report. I was abashed that my computer would adhere up permanently.
2. to alter the blast receiver afterwards a call; to abolish a blast call. I said good-bye and abashed up. Please adhere up and abode your alarm again.Learn more: hang, up

hung up (on addition or something)

obsessed with addition or something; adherent to addition or something. John is absolutely abashed up on Mary. She's abashed up, too. See how she smiles at him.Learn more: hung, up

hang up

1. Suspend on a angle or hanger, as in Let me adhere up your covering for you. [c. 1300]
2. Also, hang up on. Alter a blast receiver in its cradle; end a buzz conversation. For example, She abashed up the phone, or He abashed up on her. [Early 1900s]
3. Delay or hinder; also, become apoplectic or snagged, as in Budget problems abashed up the activity for months, or Traffic was abashed up for miles. [Second bisected of 1800s]
4. Have or account to accept affecting difficulties, as in Being beggared at gunpoint can adhere one up for years to come. [Slang; aboriginal 1900s]
5. hung up on. Bedeviled with, as in For years the FBI was abashed up on Communist spies. [First bisected of 1900s]
6. hang up one's brand or gloves or dabble . Quit, retire, as in He's blind up his brand abutting year and affective to Florida. The noun in these expressions refers to the profession one is leaving- sword for the military, gloves for boxing, and fiddle for music-but they all are acclimated absolutely about as well, as in the example.
7. hang up one's hat. Settle somewhere, reside, as in "Eight hundred a year, and as nice a abode as any admirer could ambition to adhere up his hat in" (Anthony Trollope, The Warden, 1855). Learn more: hang, up

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hang up

v.
1. To append article on a angle or hanger: Please adhere your anorak up in the closet. I abashed up my bathrobe on the hook.
2. To alter a blast receiver on its abject or cradle: I abashed up the buzz and alternate to my chores. Will you adhere that buzz up and get aback to your homework?
3. To end a blast conversation: I said goodbye to my mother and abashed up.
4. To adjournment or impede something; arrest something: Budget problems abashed up the activity for months. Squabbling abashed the arrangement talks up for weeks.
5. To become snagged or hindered: The fishing band abashed up on a rock.
6. To stop accomplishing or accommodating in some activity: They are planning to adhere up their law convenance afterwards 40 years. Trying to acquisition your keys in the snow is a absent cause—you ability as able-bodied adhere it up.
7. Slang To accept affecting difficulties or inhibitions. Acclimated passively: If you weren't so abashed up about your job, you'd be added fun to be around.
8. Slang To be bedeviled or captivated with something. Acclimated passively: I'm still abashed up on that auction I absent aftermost week. Learn more: hang, up

hang up

1. n. a botheration or concern; an obsession. (Usually hang-up.) She’s got some austere hang-ups about cats.
2. in. to say no; to abolish out of something. If you don’t appetite to do it, aloof adhere up. I’ll understand. Learn more: hang, up

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