Word Finder - dependent

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One who relies on another for support

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With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.

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

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(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.

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Relying upon; depending upon.

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At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.

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Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.

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(of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.

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Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.

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Hanging down.

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a dependent bough or leaf

She was becoming more dependent on him.

Their land phone was dependent on electricity.

One who is entirely dependent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness.

As her intellect grew she became less dependent on this sense.

The coast natives were dependent on the rulers of Dahomey or Porto Novo.

Moreover, growth is essentially dependent upon water-supply.

But Howie's abilities were wholly dependent on Quinn and his apparatus.

It's all dependent on Darian.

The other members of the group are relative and dependent, and only to be understood as in various degrees subordinate to the primitive conception.

Ecclesiastically the place was dependent on Altham till after the middle of the 19th century.

The tidal wave of the Southern Ocean, which sweeps uninterruptedly round the globe from east to west, generates a secondary wave between Africa and South America, which travels north at a rate dependent only on the depth of the ocean.

Two-thirds of the population are dependent entirely on cultivation for their support, and this is mainly rice on irrigated land.

The Deans were learning the sport of ice climbing is critically dependent on equipment, unique and not inexpensive.

The migrations must have always been dependent upon physical difficulties, such as waterless tracts or mountain barriers.

The large difference between the means obtained at Potsdam and Kremsmtinster, as compared to the comparative similarity between the results for Kew and Karasjok, suggests that the mean value of the potential gradient may be much more dependent on local conditions than on difference of latitude.

The rate of loss of charge is thus largely dependent on the extent to which ions are present in the surrounding air.

The extent to which the employment of the local preacher is characteristic of Methodism may be seen from the fact that in the United Kingdom while there are only about 5000 Methodist ministers, there are more than 18,000 congregations; some 13,000 congregations, chiefly in the villages, are dependent on local preachers.

Only the expression of the will of the Deity, not dependent on time, can relate to a whole series of events occurring over a period of years or centuries, and only the Deity, independent of everything, can by His sole will determine the direction of humanity's movement; but man acts in time and himself takes part in what occurs.

Dissipation seems largely dependent on meteorological conditions, but the phenomena at different stations vary so much as to suggest that the connexion is largely indirect.

The tanning, currying and finishing of leather, an industry largely dependent on the plentiful supply of oak and hemlock bark for tanning, is centralized in the northern and eastern parts of the state, near the forests.

Dependent on weather, outside seating is available.

The characteristic flavour and odour of wines and spirits is dependent on the proportion of higher alcohols, aldehydes and esters which may be produced.

In this way we, as it were, bring the causal or primal term and its remotest dependent immediately together, and raise a derivative knowledge into one which is primary and intuitive.

My deal with your mate is dependent upon me succeeding.

In 1895-1896 there were 919 convitti for boys, with 59,066 pupils, of which 40, with 3814 pupils, were dependent on the ministry (in 1901f 902 there were 43 of these with 4036 pupils); and 1456 for girls, with 49,367 pupils, of which only 8, with about 6oo pupils, were dependent on the ministry.

The organism is largely dependent for its vital processes upon gaseous interchanges.

When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another.

After the time of Constantine, the administration of Sardinia was separated from that of Corsica, each island being governed by a praeses dependent on the vicarius urbis Romae.

As the action of the chlorophyll apparatus is directly dependent upon light, and the immediate result of its activity is the building up of complex compounds, it has become usual to speak of the processes it sets up under the name of photosynthesis.

Obviously she was the dependent type or she wouldn't have stayed out there.

Up to 1871 the island of Sicily was, according to the bull of Urban II., ecclesiastically dependent on the king, and exempt from the canonical power of the pope.

The potential gradient near the ground varies with the season of the year and the hour of the day, and is largely dependent on the weather conditions.

To what extent he is dependent on these originals, and how far he departed from them, we shall perhaps never know exactly.

Borelli (1608-1679) as its most notable name, entered in a way on the mechanical study of anatomy suggested by Descartes, but was probably much more dependent upon the positive researches of Galileo.

The Apology - it is more correct to speak of one Apology than of two, for the second is only a continuation of the first, and dependent upon it--was written in Rome about 150.

The mayor's appointments are many, and are seldom dependent on the consent of the - council.

The subsequent decline of Athenian land-power had the effect of weakening this new connexion; at the time of the Peloponnesian War Phocis was nominally an ally and dependent of Sparta, and had lost control of Delphi.

Spiders which spin no snare are dependent for capturing prey for the most part upon their quickness or powers of lying concealed.

Occasionally acts of chastisement, of which the bombardment of Porto Farina by Blake in 1655 was the most notable, and repeated treaties, extorted by European powers, checked from time to time, but did not put an end to, the habitual piracies, on which indeed the public revenue of Tunis was mainly dependent.

The further development of the cercaria is dependent on the weed or animal in which it lies being eaten by the final host which is usually a predaceous fish or one of the higher vertebrates.

It became an episcopal see dependent on Milan in the 4th century.

The sequel showed how dependent was even the best organized army of the time upon the personality of its commander.

His son, though not wealthy, was never wholly dependent upon official income.

Other dependent citizens are cared for in the institutions of other states at public expense.

The writer is not dependent, consciously or unconsciously, on the Pauline teaching.

In many cases the colour-production is dependent on certain definite conditions - temperature, presence of oxygen, nature of the food-medium, &c. Ewart's important discovery that some of these lipochrome pigments occlude oxygen, while others do not, may have bearings on the facultative anaerobism of these organisms.

After the illness, when they were dependent on signs, Helen's tendency to gesture developed.

He'd spent his life relatively alone, crossing between the underworld and human world as needed.  Death had been far from co-dependent, and he'd had free rein.  Until two days ago, when he crossed into the underworld with Katie slung across his shoulder.  He'd forgotten what it was to have someone completely dependent on him.

Katie has been helping me crawl out of yesteryear and Alex is trying to make me less dependent.

The Reformed churches had established themselves in independence of the state when that state was Catholic; when the government became Protestant the Church had protection and at the same time became dependent.