Depend

Definitions: Depend

Depend

Verb

1. Elliptical use of "depend on": "That depends".

2. Have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!" "Depend on your family in times of crisis".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "depend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Note: Depend \De*pend"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Depended; present participle verb or noun Depending.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Depend

Belief

Count upon, depend upon, calculate upon, pin one's faith upon, reckon upon, lean upon, build upon, rely upon, rest upon; lay one's account for; make sure of.

Adverb: in the opinion of, in the eyes of; me judice; meseems, methinks; to the best of one's belief; I dare say, I doubt not, I have no doubt, I am sure; sure enough; (certainty); depend upon, rely upon it; be assured, rest assured; I'll warrant you; (affirmation).

Effect

Verb: be the effect of; Noun: be due to,be owing to; originate in, originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from,result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon.

Evidence

Rest upon, depend upon; repose on.

Existence

Phrase: ens rationis; ergo sum cogito: "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?".

Pendency

Verb: be pendent; Adjective: hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.

Qualification

Depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect).

Subjection

Verb: be subject; Adjective: be at the mercy of, lie at the mercy of; depend upon, lean upon, hang upon; fall a prey to, fall under; play second fiddle.

Uncertainty

Doubt; (disbelieve); hang in the balance, tremble in the balance; depend.

Crosswords: Depend

I suppose it would depend on the context. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

That would depend on how much good karma you want for your next life. (Beyond Rangoon; writing credit: Alex Lasker; Bill Rubenstein)

Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

Depend on size of man's head. (The Man Who Would Be King; writing credit: Gladys Hill; John Huston)

Ya can't depend on nothing no more. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Cause through tha drama, I can always depend on my mama (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

Because you're the one that I depend upon (Honesty; performing artist: Billy Joel)

On that you can depend and never worry. (Ain't No Mountain High Enough; performing artist: Diana Ross)

Depend on how the wind blows I might even paint my toes (Video; performing artist: India.Arie)

And this love I give to you you can depend on, love (Love Is All We Need; performing artist: Mary J. Blige)

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Believe in miracles, but don't depend on them. (references; author: unknown)

If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Count on God: When Your Life Doesn't Add Up: Old Testament Examples Teach You to Depend on God's Faithfulness (reference)

• Depend on Katie John (reference)

• Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software (reference)

• Enterprise Applications Market 2001-2005 Revised Forecast: Application Supplier Actions Depend on What the Definition of "New" Is [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• People Depend on Each Other (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• You Can Depend On Jesus (reference)

• You Can Depend on Me (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The appearance of a galaxy can depend strongly on the color of the light with which it is ...Credit: NASA.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Edible shrimps, like this white shrimp, Penaeus setiferus, depend on healthy estuaries for their survival. They enter the estuary from the ocean as minute post larvae and return as adults in the span of just a few months.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Kelp beds are extremely complex and critical marine habitats. Wise management of both kelp beds and the animals that depend on them is key to the future of our marine ecosystem.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Ranchers depend on the snowpack to irrigate their pasture and to water their livestock, Washoe County, NV.Credit: Ron Nichols.

Read this label. Your baby's teeth depend on it. : To Prevent Tooth Decay: Use Only Water At Bedtime.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Le piége : Une cigarette en moins un peu de vie en plus Votre sante depend aussi de vous / Comite Francais d'education pour la sante.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. The production of many tons of high quality steel depend upon the efficiency with which this electrician installs the power lines to new transformers used in conjunction with electric furnaces.Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Melkon Loosigian, Armenian, wife of vegetable farmer in West Andover, Massachusetts. They have a fourteen-acre farm and have to depend on the income of a son who works at a mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts to pull thru the winter.Credit: Library of Congress.

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And the taking of this or that part, does not depend on the express consent of all the commoners. (Second Treatise of Government)

But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear, that the individual who considers himself injured, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy. (reference)

No charge, facility or restriction shall depend directly or indirectly on the ownership or on the nationality of the ship or other means of transport on which any part of the through journey has been, or is to be, accomplished. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Probably the principles and elements upon which regular gravitations in the moral order as well as in the material depend, began to murmur.

It is a solemn question, Stephen, because on it may depend the salvation of your eternal soul.

And one thing I might depend upon, that they would certainly tell me truth, for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world.

If it had concerned either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in the Gazette with the earliest intelligence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Further studies depend on initial findings. (references)

The form your doctor suggests may depend on your symptoms. (references)

Dry mouth treatment will depend on what is causing the problem. (references)

Business

Future demand will largely depend on weather conditions. (references)

The bulk of yellow organic pigments also depend on imports. (references)

The IEAT criteria depend on factory type and estate location. (references)

Children

Papua New Guinea

However, preliminary, small-scale studies indicate that this situation has changed over the last decade, especially in areas where households have become isolated from the extended family support system and depend on the cash economy for a livelihood. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guinea-Bissau

Many depend on the charity of NGO's. (references)

Russia

Journalists continued to depend on local authorities for accreditation for major news events. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Most depend on the central government for subsidies. (references)

Philippines

Royalties depend on the agreement between the parties. (references)

Nepal

Specific responsibilities depend on the terms of the contract. (references)

Human Rights

Yemen

Inmates depend on relatives for food and medicine. (references)

Guyana

The number of appointments is to depend on the outcome of an audit of pending cases. (references)

Turkmenistan

Food is poor and prisoners depend on relatives to supplement inadequate food supplies. (references)

Indigenous People

Malaysia

The NGO claims that indigenous people struggle to prove their land rights and depend on NGO's to assist them with mapping. (references)

Canada

Disputes over native fishing rights in Atlantic Canada continued after a 1999 Supreme Court ruling on the Marshall case which interpreted centuries-old treaties to allow First Nations to earn a moderate livelihood from natural resources, in compliance with government regulations that promote conservation and protect others who depend on the same resource. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

The government has stated that future rate cuts will depend on the success of efforts to improve tax compliance. (references)

Political Rights

Gabon

Mayors and municipal councils are elected; however, municipal governments have limited financial autonomy and depend heavily on funding from the central Government. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Duties imposed depend on the good imported, country of origin, etc. (references)

Burma

The rates depend whether the item is considered an essential or a luxury item. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

They depend largely on the local telephone exchange's capacity to handle traffic. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

These holidays vary from country to country and depend on the sighting of the moon. (references)

Ukraine

As noted above, given the absence of a strong, transparent legal infrastructure, your deal may in the end depend on the trust you have painstakingly built over many months or years. (references)

Women

Argentina

The penalties for rape vary from 6 months to 20 years and depend on the nature of the relationship between the rapist and victim and the physical and mental harm inflicted. (references)

Mauritius

Since women often depend on their spouses for financial security, many remain in abusive situations for fear of being unable to provide for their children as single parents. (references)

Worker Rights

Laos

However, few families in the wage economy depend on only one member for income. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "depend": depend on ♦ depend on smb. or smth. ♦ depend upon ♦ depend upon it ♦ you can depend on it ♦ you my depend upon it!. Additional references.

Albanian

varem (hang oneself, sag, turn on), shqyrtohet, mbështetem (count on, recline, rely, repose, rest), jam varur nga, jam i mbajtur nga. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام على (be based on, predicate, premise), ‏توقف على (consist), ‏تعلق (affection, appertain, attach, become attached, cherish, cleave, concern, crush, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., touch, treasure), ‏إعتمد (bank on, build, count on, expect, lean, reckon, reckon on, rely, repose, trustee). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разчитам (decipher, lean, pick out, puzzle out, read, read off, rely), очаквам решение, на издръжка съм, завися (hinge, pivot). (various references)

Chinese 

依� (Depended, Depending, Relied, rely, Relying, Resorted, Resorting). (various references)

Czech

záviset, viset (be, be up, hang, poise), spoléhat se (presume, recline). (various references)

Danish

afhænge. (various references)

Dutch

afhangen (hang down). (various references)

Esperanto

dependi, malsuprenpendi (hang down). (various references)

Faeroese

valdast, standa til. (various references)

Farsi 

منوطبودن , مربوطبودن (Pertain), وابسته بودن (Belong, Pertain). (various references)

Finnish

riippua (be suspended from, droop, hang, hang loose). (various references)

French

dépendre. (various references)

Frisian

stean (stand), ôfhingje (hang down). (various references)

German

abhängen (hinge, jettison, shake off, to depend, uncouple, unhitch). (various references)

Greek 

εξαρτώμαι (depend on, hinge). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"יות תלוי (hang, hinge), לסמוך (bank on, count on, dweel in, lean upon, prop, reckon on, recline, rely, support, trust). (various references)

Hungarian

múlik valamin, függ (hang, impend, to be dependent on, to depend, to hang, to hinge). (various references)

Indonesian

bergantung. (various references)

Italian

dipendere (be due to, be under the authority, derive, hang, hinge, rely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

仰ぐ (to ask for, to depend on, to look up to, to respect, to seek). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たよる (to depend on, to have recourse to, to rely on), ばあいによる (to be handled case by case, to depend), か�"か�"どく (utter loneliness, with no one upon whom to depend), �"どもにかかる (to depend on one's children), あおぐ (to ask for, to depend on, to drink, to fan, to flap, to look up, to respect, to revere, to seek, to take), よるべ (one's resort, person to turn to or depend on, place to go), よる (evening, night, to approach, to be caused by, to be due to, to choose, to come from, to depend on, to drop in, to lean on, to rest against, to select, to visit). (various references)

Korean 

의존하십시�". (various references)

Manx

croghey (bank on, climb, cling, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, jack up, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension, swing). (various references)

Norwegian

stole på (rely on, trust in), avhenge. (various references)

Papiamen

dependé. (various references)

Pig Latin

ependday

Polish

zależeć. (various references)

Portuguese

depender (depend on, lean, rely). (various references)

Romanian

depinde (it all depends, that depends, we shall see), fi în suspensie (overlie), atârna (beetle, flap, flow, hang, loll, lop, suspend, weigh). (various references)

Russian 

зависеть (hang on, turn on). (various references)

Scottish

gléidh (preserve, retain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavisiti (be subordinate, hinge), pouzdati se (believe, rely). (various references)

Spanish

depender. (various references)

Swedish

bero (be dependent). (various references)

Turkish

tabi olmak (be liable to, be subject to), güvenmek (accredit, bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, believe, build, calculate, confide, confide in, count on, credit, fall back upon a thing, figure on, give credence to, go on, have confidence in, lean on, look to, pin one's faith on, place one's trust in, place reliance in, place reliance on, put faith in, put one's trust in, reckon on, reckon upon, recline upon, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose in, rest on, take smth. on trust, throw oneself on, trust), bağlı olmak (appertain, be attached to, be based on, be linked, bound up with, cleave, hang, hang on, hinge on, interconnect, interdepend, pay homage to, pivot, relate, rest on, sit under, turn on, turn upon). (various references)

Turkmen 

garaюly bolmak.Turkmen/English Dicti (depend on), bagly bolmak (depend on). (various references)

Ukranian 

розраховувати (bank, bargain on, calculate, expect), очікувати рішення, одержувати допомогу, надіятися (hope), заумовлюватися, залежати (hinge, require), покладатися (build on, confide, reckon, recline, rely, trust). (various references)

Welsh

dibynnu (rely), ymddibynnu. (various references)

dependeat, dependente, dependentia, pendebant, pendebantque, pendebat, pendebit, pendens, pendent, pendentem, pendeo, pendere, penderent, pendet, pependerat, pependit. (various references)

dependre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "depend": dependabilities, dependability, dependable, dependableness, dependablenesses, dependably, dependance, dependances, dependant, dependants, depended, dependence, dependences, dependencies, dependency, dependent, dependently, dependents, depending, depends. (additional references)

Words ending with "depend": interdepend. (additional references)

Words containing "depend": codependence, codependences, codependencies, codependency, codependent, codependents, independence, independences, independencies, independency, independent, independently, independents, interdepended, interdependence, interdependences, interdependencies, interdependency, interdependent, interdependently, interdepending, interdepends, nondependent, nondependents, nonindependence, nonindependences, overdependence, overdependences, overdependent, postindependence, undependable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Depend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debend, debendox, debent, decend, deepend, Dejene, Delenda, Depden, deped, depen, dependi, depied, Depone, deppeana, desend, desperd, detend, Devendra, devenu, dupen, tipend. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pended.

-1 letter: ended.

-2 letters: deed, deep, dene, need, neep, peed, peen, pend.

-3 letters: dee, den, end, nee, ped, pee, pen.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, ne, pe.

+1 letter: depends, deponed, upended.

+2 letters: appended, dampened, deepened, depended, deplaned, expanded, expended, impended, pandered, pondered, pondweed.

+3 letters: depainted, dependant, dependent, depending, desponded, dipnetted, dispended, dispensed, expounded, peduncled, perpended, pinheaded, plundered, pondweeds, portended, pretended, propended, protended, responded, suspended, unimpeded.

+4 letters: deadpanned, deadpanner, dependable, dependably, dependance, dependants, dependence, dependency, dependents, despondent, endopodite, epidendrum, openhanded, pedimented, predefined, prescinded, promenaded, splendider, unexpended, unexploded, vilipended.

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