depend

English Online Dictionary. What means depend‎? What does depend mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre and Latin dependeō, from Latin dē- + pendeō (“to hang”). In this sense, displaced native Old English hangian (“to hang or depend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɛnd/, /də-/, /di-/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

depend (third-person singular simple present depends, present participle depending, simple past and past participle depended)

1. (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
3. (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
4. (now literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
5. (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
6. (transitive) To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.

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See also

• depending

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “depend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “depend”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• pended