hang

1. 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, especially 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.