Dangling
Dangling tanım:
Kelime: dan·gle
Söyleniş: 'da[ng]-g&l
İşlev: verb
Türleri: dan·gled; dan·gling
/-g(&-)li[ng]/Kökeni: probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish dangle to dangle
intransitive senses
1 : to hang loosely and usually so as to be able to swing freely
2 : to be a hanger-on or a dependent
3 : to occur in a sentence without having a normally expected syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence (as climbing in "Climbing the mountain the cabin came into view") a dangling participle a dangling modifier
transitive senses
1 : to cause to dangle : SWING
2 a : to keep hanging uncertainly b : to hold out as an inducement
- dan·gler
/-g(&-)l&r/ noun