Definition of depend

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Depend (v. i.) To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court..

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Incoherent :: Incoherent (a.) Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.
East :: East (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West..
Pend :: Pend (v. i.) To hang; to depend.
Liege :: Liege (n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign..
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life..
Pivot :: Pivot (n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise..
Nationalist :: Nationalist (n.) One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.
Dependent :: Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents..
Realism :: Realism (n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle)..
Dichromatic :: Dichromatic (a.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects..
Freedom :: Freedom (n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
Article :: Article (n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia..
Autonomous :: Autonomous (a.) Having independent existence or laws.
Hospital :: Hospital (n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for..
Flap-eared :: Flap-eared (a.) Having broad, loose, dependent ears..
Extraneous :: Extraneous (a.) Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter..
Precarious :: Precarious (a.) Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges..
Humanitarianism :: Humanitarianism (n.) The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations..
Self-contained :: Self-contained (a.) Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself..
Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion..
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