hang

hang v.  1. 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}.  2. 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}.  3. 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.