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depend
English
Etymology
From Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre and Latin depende?, from Latin d?- + pende? (“to hang”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
depend (third-person singular simple present depends, present participle depending, simple past and past participle depended)
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
- (now literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
- (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
- 1703, The History Of King William The Third. In III Parts:
- While the Bishops Affair was depending, the King sent orders [...]
- 1836, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench:
- In perjury, the capias, warrant, and affidavit, are good evidence that a cause was depending.
- 1837, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 544:
- "A Letter of the King sent to his Proctors at Rome, concerning a Case of his in the said Court depending."
- 1703, The History Of King William The Third. In III Parts:
Related terms
Translations
References
- depend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- depend at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- pended
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dependent
English
Etymology
Originally dependant, from French dépendant, present participle of dépendre (“to depend”) (in English assimilated to Latin d?pend?ns).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p?nd?nt/
- Hyphenation: de?pend?ent
Adjective
dependent (comparative more dependent, superlative most dependent)
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
- 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
- Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.
- 2006, M.M. Rao and Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87:
- Is it possible to find events A, B of ? so that A and B are independent? The answer to this simple and interesting problem is no. A probability space (?,?,P) is called a “dependent probability space” if there are no nontrivial independent events in ?, (?,?,P) is called an independent space otherwise.
- 2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49:
- (of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
- (medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- Hanging down.
Antonyms
- independent
Hyponyms
- language-dependent
- redshift-dependent
- system-dependent
- order-dependent
Translations
Noun
dependent (plural dependents)
- (US) One who relies on another for support
- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
Synonyms
- dependant (UK)
Related terms
- dependee
- depender
Translations
Antonyms
- independent
Derived terms
- co-dependent
- depending
Related terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin d?pend?ns.
Adjective
dependent (masculine and feminine plural dependents)
- dependent
- Antonym: independent
Derived terms
- dependència
- dependentment
Related terms
- dependre
- independent
Further reading
- “dependent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dependent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “dependent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dependent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Ladin
Noun
dependent m (plural dependenc)
- employee
Latin
Verb
d?pendent
- third-person plural present active indicative of d?pende?
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dépendant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.pen?dent/
Adjective
dependent m or n (feminine singular dependent?, masculine plural dependen?i, feminine and neuter plural dependente)
- dependent
Declension
Antonyms
- independent
Related terms
- dependen??
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