dangle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lacrosse
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
skating
sports
Etymology: Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln; all possibly related to Old Norse dengja (“to hit”).
Inflected forms:
form: dangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dangled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dangles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His feet are dangling in the water.
He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
gloss: The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.
gloss: To hang or trail something loosely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.
gloss: To put forth as a possibility.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: That it happens to have been produced under the imprimatur of Michael Bay dangles the possibility of poor taste, but unfortunately, bombast and conspicuous consumption are nowhere to be found.
gloss: To trail or follow around.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
gloss: Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]
[P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.
gloss: To position (a patient) in this way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Using proper body mechanics for dangling a patient at the side of the bed.
gloss: An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
pos: noun
examples: The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.
gloss: The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
gloss: A dangling ornament or decoration.
pos: noun
examples: So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.
Derived words: adangle
bedangle
danglable
dangleable
dangle after
dangleberry
dangler
dangle the Dunlops
dangling else
dangling link
danglingly
dangling modifier
dangling participle
dangling pointer
dangly
dingleberry
dingle-dangle
overdangle
wangle
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: luhat
lang: Arabic
word: تَدَلَّى
roman: tadallā
lang: Arabic
word: تَهَدَّلَ
roman: tahaddala
lang: Bulgarian
word: вися
roman: visja
lang: Catalan
word: penjar
lang: Dutch
word: bengelen
lang: Dutch
word: bungelen
lang: Esperanto
word: pendeti
lang: Finnish
word: roikkua
lang: Finnish
word: riippua
lang: Finnish
word: roikottaa
lang: Finnish
word: riiputtaa
lang: French
word: pendre
lang: French
word: pendouiller
lang: Galician
word: pender
lang: Galician
word: pendurar
lang: Galician
word: colgar
lang: German
word: baumeln
lang: Hungarian
word: csüng
lang: Hungarian
word: fityeg
lang: Hungarian
word: lóbál
lang: Italian
word: penzolare
lang: Māori
word: tāewa
lang: Māori
word: tautau
lang: Māori
word: tāwēwē
lang: Māori
word: tārewarewa
lang: Māori
word: tārewa
lang: Portuguese
word: pender
lang: Portuguese
word: pendurar
lang: Romanian
word: bălăbăni
lang: Romanian
word: legăna
lang: Russian
word: висе́ть
roman: visétʹ
lang: Russian
word: болтаться
roman: boltatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: кача́ться
roman: kačátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: pender
lang: Telugu
word: వ్రేలాడు
roman: vrēlāḍu
lang: Tocharian B
word: länk-
lang: Ukrainian
word: теліпа́тися
roman: telipátysja
lang: Venetan
word: pindoƚar
lang: Vietnamese
word: treo
lang: Vietnamese
word: lủng lẳng