Hanging and Setting

Hanging

Hanging noun - A downward slope.

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Setting and hanging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Hanging".

Nearby Words: hang, hangup, hangout, hanger, hanged

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Hanging and setting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hanging" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

old	old hanging	old setting
good	good hanging	good setting
usual	usual hanging	usual setting
common	common hanging	common setting
Other adjectives: natural, specific, public, regular, original, interesting, possible, classic.

Alternatively constrictor snakes will be lazily coiled around the hanging branch of a tree, becoming stock decoration of the Hungry Jungle setting.

Source: Stock Animal Behavior
Nearly all of Eric's lines are either Cloud Cuckoolander craziness or Lampshade Hanging about the setting and plot.

Source: Lampshade Hanging / Fan Works
A Sub-Trope of Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit", rarely played straight these days but still used often when parodying or hanging a lampshade on a certain setting's Recycled In Space trappings.

Source: SpaceX

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