1. [very common] 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, esp. 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.