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Definition of Hang together
1. Verb. Be connected. "In my heart I can make the world hang together"
Generic synonyms: Connect, Link, Link Up, Tie
Derivative terms: Interdependence, Interdependency, Interdependent
Definition of Hang together
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To be connected. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To correspond or fit well. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic of two people) To be in a romantic relationship. ¹
4. Verb. (idiomatic of people) To be united in defiance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hang Together
Literary usage of Hang together
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"When it thunders the tfi 57- When thieves fall out th 58. Why is there honor amo
they usually hang together. Thing. ..."
2. Guesses at Truth by Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1847)
"The argument then, if unraveled into a syllogism, would hang together thus : Some
gratifications are selfish : No gratification is happiness : therefore, ..."
3. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"... bunal that the two questions hang together, in the sense that if the questions
of right are decided adversely to the United States, themi there can be ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"hang together like birds. — IBID. hang together like burrs. — IBID. Hangs together
like a rope of sand. — IBID, Like Mahomet's coffin, the shocking word ..."
5. Economic and Industrial Delusions: A Discussion of the Case for Protection by Arthur B. Farquhar, Henry Farquhar (1891)
"WHY THE MANUFACTURERS hang together. If it be true, as I have tried to prove,
and as I firmly believe, that protection costs the manufacturers themselves, ..."
6. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"How can society hang together long in a country where the Corinthian capital
takes so much pains to ..."
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