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Definition of Dependent

1. Noun. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support).

2. Adjective. Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed. "Dependent on moisture"

3. Adjective. Contingent on something else.

4. Adjective. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence. "A subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"

5. Adjective. Held from above. "A pendant bunch of grapes"

6. Adjective. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others. "A dependent prince"

7. Adjective. Addicted to a drug.

Definition of Dependent

1. a. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

2. 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.

Definition of Dependent

1. Adjective. Relying upon; depending upon ¹

2. Adjective. (of certain Irish irregular verbs): standing only after a preverbal particle ¹

3. Adjective. (qualifier of Scottish Gaelic verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions. ¹

4. Adjective. (in medicine:) affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine ¹

5. Noun. (American English) One who relies on another for support ¹

6. Noun. (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements modifiers and determiners. ¹

7. Noun. (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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dependent

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dependent

1. Exhibiting dependence or dependency. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dependent

dependance dependances dependant dependant on(p) dependants depended dependee dependence dependences dependencies

dependency dependency culture dependency injection dependency injections dependency inversion principle dependent (current term) dependent beat dependent clause dependent clauses dependent drainage

dependent oedema dependent on(p) dependent personality dependent personality disorder dependent variable dependent variables dependently dependents depender dependest

Literary usage of Dependent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"The dependent's sister-in-law stated that the dependent had a bank account in ... The Home records showed that this dependent was an unnaturalized alien, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The hypothesis which Dr. Venable puts forth is that valence is dependent upon vibratory ... Variable valence will be, in part at least, dependent upon the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"Classification of Lesions of the Spinal Cord, dependent on Dystocia.—I consider the present case an example of an almost complete rupture of the spinal cord ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The criticism upon the charge is that "the law in this case IB not dependent upon the doctrine alone of reasonable doubt, but is dependent upon the law of ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... 84, "if they are so mutually connected with and dependent on each other, as conditions, considerations or compensations for each other as to warrant a ..."

6. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Behavior dependent on nervous control. The highly. differentiated muscular system of the human body takes on a greater significance for the student of ..."

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