dependent

Significat (English)

Adj

1. Relying upon; depending upon.
2. Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
3. Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
4. Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
5. Hanging down.

Noun

1. A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
2. An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
3. 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.
4. dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.

Synonyms

subject

subordinate

dependant

subservient

pendent

depending

contingent

pendant

strung-out

slave

qualified

associated

addicted

auxiliary

provisory

dependence

hanger-on

conditional

reliant

drug-addicted

secondary

hooked

servile

indirect

junkie

minister

necessitous

needy

nodding

obedient

officer

parasite

pendulous

provisional

related

relative

reliance

serf

servant

sponger

straitened

subdued

subjugated

subsidiary

tied up

trusting

under control

underslung

wrapped up

contingent on

dependant on

in need

poor person

relying on

dependent upon

sponge off

living at home

not self-willed

not one’s own master

contingent upon

dependant upon

non-independent

adjective

affiliated

annexed

attached

auxillary

belonging

burden

client

colonial

commoner

conditioned

depend

dependent on

depending on

destitute

enclosed

follower

functionary

helpless

incidental

included

indigent

Amb guionet com a

de‧pend‧ent

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dɪˈpɛndənt/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: dependaunt

In summary

From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.

Frases

The exact shape of the cavity is often dependent on how many lamps are used .

Normal heights are thus dependent upon the reference ellipsoid chosen .