hang

[very common] To wait for an event that will never occur. "The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive". See {wedged}, {hung}.
To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until something happens. "The program displays a menu and then hangs until you type a character." Compare {block}.
To attach a peripheral device, esp. in the construction `hang off': "We're going to hang another tape drive off the file server." Implies a device attached with cables, rather than something that is strictly inside the machine's chassis.