Word Finder - depend

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(followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.

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We would like to go skiing, but it depends on the amount of snow.

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(followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.

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we depend on the mailman to come at the usual time.

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To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.

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a cause depending in court

If I need any help, I can always depend on Josh.

Do not depend on the putty.

It might depend on the circumstances.

A good deal may also depend on the soil.

I was raised on a farm, and being an only child, I learned not to depend on others for entertainment.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them.

No, it's not, but you're strong, and the lives of those you care about depend upon you.

He officiated at the coronation of the boy king Edward VI., and is supposed to have instituted a sinister change in the order of the ceremony, by which the right of the monarch to reign was made to appear to depend upon inheritance alone, without the concurrent consent of the people.

The priests of the Greek Church, on whom the rural population depend for instruction, are often deplorably ignorant.

Not reckoning scattered notices, we depend principally upon five later compositions, Diodorus, book xvii.

Under the system of grazing practised throughout Australia it is customary to allow sheep, cattle and horses to run at large all the year round within enormous enclosures and to depend entirely upon the natural growth of grass for their subsistence.

For you'll admit that if we don't know for sure how many of them there are... hundreds of lives may depend on it, while there are only two of us.

It appears, however, to depend upon the fact that an electric arc is not like a solid conductor.

At the receiving station the differences in these systems depend chiefly upon variations in the actual form of the oscillation detector used, whether it be a loose contact or a thermal, electrolytic or magnetic detector.

I depend upon you as much as Vara.

There's no room for failure, not when the souls of the dead depend on you.

Monotropas afford an extreme case of it, having lost their chlorophyll almost entirely, and come to depend upon the Fungi for their nutrinient.

The ultimate value of numerical inquiries must depend on the equivalence of the units on which they are based.

The splitting up of the vascular tube I into separate strands does not depend wholly upon the occurrence I of leaf-gaps.

In such cases the characters of the adult tissue clearly depend solely upon the characters of the cell-walls, and it is usual in plant-anatomy to speak of the wall with its enclosed cavity as the cell, and the contained protoplasm or other substances, if present, as cell-contents.

In other words, as these growing regions consist of cells, the growth of the entire organ or plant will depend upon the behaviour of the cells or protoplasts of which the merismatic tissues are composed.

It makes me feel secure to know you're there and I can depend on you.

The legal basis in any particular case is bound to depend on the circumstances.

The relations of their bishops, priests or other ministers and lay office-bearers inter se and to their lay folk depend upon contract; and these Y P P contracts will be enforced by the ordinary courts of law.

The different extent of quinqueradiate symmetry in the different classes would thus depend on the period at which they diverged from the sedentary stock.

The king inquires into the state of things in 1066 because it is on that state of things that his rights of taxation depend.

Swimming upstream is easier Fortunes all depend on how far upstream chemicals companies are placed.

Much will depend upon the precise wording of the provision in question.

He differs from Schopenhauer in making salvation by the "negation of the Will-to-live" depend on a collective social effort and not on individualistic asceticism.

When the weakness of his eyes made it necessary for him to depend almost entirely on the service of readers and secretaries, in his eighty-first year he began to write the Weltgeschichte (9 vols., Leipzig, 1883-88).

In his next work, Die Meistersinger, Wagner ingeniously made poetry and drama out of an explicit manifesto to musical critics, and proved the depth of his music by developing its everyday resources and so showing that its vitality does not depend on that extreme emotional force that makes Tristan and Isolde almost unbearably poignant.

At the end of each twig is a membrane pierced by pores, and a number of cilia depend into the lumen of the tube; these cilia maintain a constant motion.

In Denmark, on the proposal of the Academy of Science, a survey was carried out in 1766-1825, but the maps issued by the Danish general staff depend upon more recent surveys.

For the same reason they refuse to occupy the time of worship with an arranged programme of vocal service; they meet in silence, desiring that the service of the meeting shall depend on spiritual guidance.

But these contradictions do not depend upon any theory of number, for Russell's contradiction 2 does not involve number in any form.

Under the first head would be included proportional taxes dependent upon the value of the property taxed; under the second, taxes whose amount does not depend upon that value.

The concessionnaire companies have, however, wisely taken the view that it is better to depend upon their own revenues than upon any government guarantee, and have done their best to develop the working value of the lines in their charge.

The soul, as being immaterial, is immortal, and its consciousness does not depend upon its connexion with the body.

It has been compared with that of milk and of blood, which depend essentially on the coagulation or separation in curds of a proteid or albuminous substance, such as takes place when white of egg is warmed.

Its settlement will depend in part on the cost of producing rubber from plants, which from their point of view it is to the interests of planters to reduce as far as possible.

In spite of many errors, especially in Greek history, in which he had to depend upon secondhand information, the work of Baronius stands as an honest attempt to write history, marked with a sincere love of truth.

The micas are bad conductors of heat and electricity, and it is on these properties that many of their technical applications depend.

Other applications depend on the strength of its resistance to acids.

Utilizing this principle he constructed the radiometer, which he was at first disposed to regard as a machine that directly transformed light into motion, but which was afterwards perceived to depend on thermal action.

Pipes conveying the water of an aqueduct across a valley and following the contour of the sides are sometimes called siphons, though they do not depend on the principle of the above instrument.

It is thus possible to study simultaneously all the theories which depend upon operations of the group. Symbolic Representation of Symmetric Functions.-Denote the s 8 s elementar symmetric function a s by al a 2 a3 ...at pleasure; then, Y y si,, si,...

Further, it is increasingly felt that ethical judgments do not depend on reason alone, but involve every element in our character; and that the real problem of practical morality is to establish a harmonious balance between the intelligence and the feelings - to make a man's "I think this is right" correspond with his "I feel that it is so."

These are to be regarded merely as typical specimens, for the details of a curve depend largely upon the physical condition and purity of the material; but they show at a glance how far the several metals differ from and resemble one another as regards their magnetic properties.

But this " critical value " of the force is found to depend in an unexpected manner upon the hardness of the steel; the critical value diminishes as the hardness becomes greater up to a certain point, corresponding to a yellow temper, after which it increases and with the hardest steel becomes very high.

Hence the changes of volume undergone by a given sample of wrought iron under increasing magnetization must depend largely upon the state of the metal as regards hardness; there may be always contraction, or always expansion, or first one and then the other.