"hang together" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hangs together",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hanging together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung together",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hang<,,hung> together"
      },
      "expansion": "hang together (third-person singular simple present hangs together, present participle hanging together, simple past and past participle hung together)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be connected."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_together-en-verb-N85wHlFa",
      "links": [
        [
          "connected",
          "connected"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be connected."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To correspond or fit well."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_together-en-verb-PPaXRU0c",
      "links": [
        [
          "correspond",
          "correspond"
        ],
        [
          "fit",
          "fit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To correspond or fit well."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in a romantic relationship."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_together-en-verb-h~8EwzZj",
      "links": [
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of two people) To be in a romantic relationship."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of two people"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 0 94 3 1 1",
          "sense": "be in a romantic relationship",
          "word": "step out"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be united in defiance."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_together-en-verb-EkM6tXrc",
      "links": [
        [
          "defiance",
          "defiance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of people) To be united in defiance."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 45:",
          "text": "[…]we are all of a piece; we hang together.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain united; to stand by one another."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_together-en-verb-s-MXO4AU"
    },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 7 10 10 11 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"together\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 6 15 8 11 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 6 8 8 8 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The story does not hang together.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be self-consistent and make sense; to seem plausible."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_together-en-verb-M1e5EWiU",
      "qualifier": "plan or scheme",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a story, plan or scheme) To be self-consistent and make sense; to seem plausible."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a story"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "date"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang together"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hangs together",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hanging together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung together",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "hang<,,hung> together"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be connected."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "connected",
          "connected"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be connected."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To correspond or fit well."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "correspond",
          "correspond"
        ],
        [
          "fit",
          "fit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To correspond or fit well."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in a romantic relationship."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of two people) To be in a romantic relationship."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of two people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be united in defiance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defiance",
          "defiance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of people) To be united in defiance."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 45:",
          "text": "[…]we are all of a piece; we hang together.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain united; to stand by one another."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The story does not hang together.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be self-consistent and make sense; to seem plausible."
      ],
      "qualifier": "plan or scheme",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a story, plan or scheme) To be self-consistent and make sense; to seem plausible."
      ],
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        "of a story"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "be in a romantic relationship",
      "word": "step out"
    },
    {
      "word": "date"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang together"
}