Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: DEPENDED |
DEPENDEDImperative & past participle1. Of Depend |
Date "DEPENDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Belief | Worthy of, deserving of, commanding belief; credible, reliable, trustworthy, to be depended on; satisfactory; probably; fiducial, fiduciary; persuasive, impressive. |
Certainty | Unerring, infallible; unchangeable; to be depended on, trustworthy, reliable, bound. |
Probity | Constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; "marble-constant"; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEPENDED |
| English words defined with "DEPENDED": away ♦ certain ♦ dependable ♦ emotional state ♦ For my life, For the life of me ♦ honest, humor, humour ♦ matter-of-course, mood ♦ pass, passing ♦ qualifying ♦ reliable ♦ spirit, Stratigraphical, sure ♦ temper, To count out, true ♦ Wages fund, Wankle ♦ youth subculture. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEPENDED": Branch on Chip Box Full ♦ Florentius, FLY ♦ Steam-kettles. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DEPENDED": Depend. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers (A Streetcar Named Desire; writing credit: Tennessee Williams; Oscar Saul) You couldn't catch me if your life depended on it (Peter Pan and the Pirates; writing credit: Gregory Bernstein; Sara Bernstein) | |
Lyrics | It ain't wise to need someone as much as I depended on you (IT'S A HEARTACHE; performing artist: BONNIE TYLER) | |
Clever | Pray as if everything depended on God; act as if everything depended on yourself! (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Figure 6. De Guerne bucket biologic sample recovery unit devised by Baron Jules De Guerne about 1893. a collaborator with Prince Albert I of Monaco. Use of this instrument depended on which type of net was used and how long the tow. It is almost certain that this instrument existed in this form by 1893. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Rock-handling Process (1908). Measured drawing delineated by Richard K. Anderson, Jr., 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MI-2, sheet 18 of 34) Like many copper-mining operations on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Quincy Mining Company depended on complex processes such as the one illustrated in this HAER drawing to handle the copper and rock blasted from mines. At the company's No. 2 mine, the Shaft-Rockhouse separated the copper and rock mechanically into three distinct groups: "mass" copper (pure ore), poor rock containing little or no copper ore, and ore-rich rock and chunks larger than twenty inches. Once separated, the mass copper was shipped directly to smelters via the Great Lakes, the poor rock was crushed for use in road construction, and the material in the third group was crushed before shipment to smelters. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Love as if your life depended on it. it does. : insist on condoms. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cardinal De Richelieu | Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. |
Felicite de Lamennais | Every stable government in history has depended on the resignation of the poor to being poor. |
Francis Cardinal Spellman | Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. |
St. Augustine | Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She depended on the evil feelings of the Eltons for supplying all the discipline of pointed neglect that could be farther requisite |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Everything depended upon him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Imperturbability could be depended upon |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The country’s economic recovery, based largely on a growing stream of oil-related revenue, will undoubtedly present new opportunities in a sector that in the past has depended largely on imports financed mostly by foreign aid and international donor organizations. (references) | |
Industrial robots have been used on the production line at Japanese automobile manufacturers since the late 1970s. In fact, the export-led expansion of the Japanese automobile industry in those days depended on Japan's development of superior production systems that churned out high quality products with great efficiency. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Nicaragua | The leftist-leaning El Nuevo Diario, which had depended on a substantial amount of its revenue coming from government-purchased space prior to Aleman's presidency, largely was cut off by the Aleman administration during the year. (references) |
Economic History | Tunisia | Tunisia's economic growth historically has depended on oil, phosphates, agriculture, and tourism. (references) |
Armenia | During its later political eclipses, Armenia depended on the church to preserve and protect its unique identity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Italy | Carnevale's conviction depended in part upon testimony by pentiti who also testified against former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in two separate trials. (references) |
Chad | These groups reportedly were not allowed access to military prisons, and their access to civilian prisons depended greatly on the personal inclinations of judges and prison administrators. (references) | |
Afghanistan | The administration and implementation of justice varied from area to area and depended on the inclinations of local commanders or other authorities, who summarily executed, tortured, and meted out punishments, including executions, without reference to any other authority. (references) | |
Political Economy | GREECE | Greece's growth (4.5 percent projected in 2001) has greatly depended on EU financing the last decade. (references) |
Guatemala | According to the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), between 50 and 60 percent of the population depended on subsistence farming. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Liechtenstein | In 2000 a total of 47 households depended on public welfare to obtain a yearly minimal income--set at $10,700 (17,720 Swiss francs) for a 1-person household--and were considered working poor. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Propose a restoration of this primitive State in which its Teachers depended on the voluntary rewards of their flocks, many of them predict its downfall. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our success in world affairs has long depended in part upon foreign confidence in our ability to pay. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DEPENDED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 76.72% of the time. "DEPENDED" is used about 596 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 76.72% | 458 | 12,792 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.78% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 596 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DEPENDED": to be depended on. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "DEPENDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 依 (Depend, Depending, Relied, rely, Relying, Resorted, Resorting). (various references) | |
French | dépendus, dépendue, dépendu, dépendit, dépendirent. (various references) | |
German | hing davon ab, hing ab. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 期待薄 (be of little hope, not to be depended on). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きたいうす (be of little hope, not to be depended on). (various references) | |
Korean | 의존하" (Dependant, Dependent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ependedday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DEPENDED": interdepended. (additional references) | |
| |
"DEPENDED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debendox, dependand, dependee, dependend, dependeth, dependi, depense, desended. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEPENDED" (pronounced dupe"ndud) |
| 7 | -u p e" n d u d | appended. |
| 6 | -p e" n d u d | expended, suspended. |
| 5 | -e" n d u d | amended, apprehended, ascended, attended, befriended, bended, blended, commended, comprehended, contended, defended, descended, distended, ended, extended, fended, intended, mended, offended, overextended, pretended, recommended, splendid, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unintended. |
| 4 | -n d u d | abounded, astounded, backhanded, banded, blinded, bonded, bounded, branded, candid, commanded, compounded, confounded, corresponded, demanded, disbanded, landed, dumbfounded, evenhanded, expanded, expounded, founded, funded, grounded, handed, hounded, impounded, masterminded, minded, overfunded, pounded, propounded, rebounded, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, rounded, sanded, seconded, sounded, stranded, surrounded, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfounded, unfunded, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-e-e-n-p" | |
-2 letters: deeded, deepen, depend, needed, peened, pended. | |
-3 letters: ended. | |
-4 letters: deed, deep, dene, epee, need, neep, peed, peen, pend. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, end, nee, ped, pee, pen. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-d-e-e-e-n-p" | |
+5 letters: interdepended. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
