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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??
dependent From the web:
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attendant
English
Alternative forms
- attendaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t?nd?nt/
Noun
attendant (plural attendants)
- One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.
- A servant or valet.
- (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
- That which accompanies or follows.
- (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
Translations
Adjective
attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)
- Going with; associated; concomitant.
- (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- part and parcel
French
Pronunciation
Verb
attendant
- present participle of attendre
Derived terms
- en attendant
- en attendant que
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /at?ten.dant/, [ät??t??n?d?än?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /at?ten.dant/, [?t??t??n?d??n?t?]
Verb
attendant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of attend?
attendant From the web:
- attendant means
- what attendant at birth
- what attendant circumstances
- what attendant in english
- what does attendant mean
- what flight attendant do
- what is attendant care
- what flight attendants say
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