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HANG TOGETHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hang together mean?
• HANG TOGETHER (verb)
The verb HANG TOGETHER has 1 sense:
1. be connected
Familiarity information: HANG TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be connected
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
hang together; interdepend
Context example:
In my heart I can make the world hang together
Hypernyms (to "hang together" is one way to...):
connect; link; link up; tie (connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples
An’ wasn’t it a week later that the poor little ladies was put ashore on the other side of the island, with nothin’ before ’em but to walk home acrost the mountains on their weeny-teeny little straw sandals which wouldn’t hang together a mile?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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