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1dangling — [adj] supported from above drooping, droopy, hanging, pendent, pendulous, suspended; concept 485 …
2Dangling — Dangle Dan gle (d[a^][ng] g l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dangling}.] [Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw. dangla, Dan. dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E. ding.] To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion …
3dangling — adjective her dangling earrings Syn: hanging, drooping, droopy, suspended, pendulous, pendent, trailing, flowing, tumbling …
4Dangling pointer — Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations. Dangling Pointer Dangling pointers arise when an object is… …
5Dangling Man —   1st edition cover …
6dangling debit — A debit balance on goodwill account deducted from shareholders funds instead of being shown as an asset. Rather than show the balance of purchased goodwill as an asset, some companies choose to write it off immediately after an acquisition to a… …
7dangling participles — see participles 3 …
8Dangling modifier — A dangling modifier, a specific case of which is the dangling participle,[1] is an error in sentence structure whereby a grammatical modifier is associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a …
9Dangling bond — In chemistry, a dangling bond is an unsatisfied valence on an immobilised atom. In order to gain enough electrons to fill their valence shells (see also octet rule), many atoms will form covalent bonds with other atoms. In the simplest case, that …
10dangling modifiers — are one of the more complicated and disagreeable aspects of English usage, but at least they provide some compensation by being frequently amusing. Every authority has a stock of illustrative howlers. Fowler, for instance, gives us Handing me… …
