verb
definition
To hang down.
definition
To arch over (something); to vault.
definition
To hang; to depend.
verb
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To pen; to confine.
verb
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To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
adjective
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Awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation.
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Begun but not completed.
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About to happen; imminent or impending.
preposition
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While waiting for something; until.
example
Pending the outcome of the investigation, the police officer is suspended from duty.
definition
During.
example
Pending the investigation, the police officer is suspended from duty.
Examples of pending in a Sentence
Actually, I'm a lawyer, working with local counsel on a pending case.
That was my entry to explain to Brennan my pending problems with the Keene detective.
Details were withheld pending further investigation.
With so many problems pending, I desperately needed time to think things through.
Bobby was assigned to the pending burglary case and Dean had made the arrest.
Again obstruction precluded debate, and on the 22nd of July 1899 the decree automatically acquired force of law, pending the adoption of a bill of indemnity by the Chamber.
Martha's pending due date was an incentive to Betsy.
Much of the blame falls upon the Supreme Council, which shrank from the only effective means of allaying friction - immediate Allied occupation of the disputed zone, pending the decision of the Peace Conference.
Every decision is held in pending for four days before it becomes substantive.
On the 28th the Hungarian parliament adjourned sine die, pending the settlement of the crisis, without having voted the estimates for 1910, and without there being any prospect of a meeting of the delegations.
Meanwhile the Polish Government's proposal for joint action against the Bolsheviks was rejected pending Lithuania's recognition as an independent state with Vilna for its capital.
By means of a well-chosen value of n, determined by a few experiments, it is possible, pending further experiment, with the most recent design, to utilize Bashforth's experimental results carried out with old-fashioned projectiles fired from muzzle-loading guns.
In 1783 the New Jersey delegates in Congress proposed that Trenton be made the seat of the general government, but as this measure was opposed by the Southern delegates, it was agreed that Congress, pending a final decision, should sit alternately at Annapolis and Trenton.
He was already the grand distributor of ecclesiastical benefices, pending the time when his successors were to confirm the episcopal elections, and his power began to take on a more and more absolute character.
When he joined the Deans in the bakery-smelling kitchen, any apparent distress over his pending jury duty had vanished like a last piece of pie, replaced with jokes about grand-fatherhood and changing diapers.
All neurological symptoms should serve as a stroke "warning sign" and could indicate a pending, more serious attack.
The Discourse on the Dissensions in Athens and Rome (September 1701), written to repel the tactics of the Tory commons in their attack on the Partition Treaties "without humour and without satire," and intended as a dissuasive from the pending impeachment of Somers, Orford, Halifax and Portland, received the honour, extraordinary for the maiden publication of a young politician, of being generally attributed to Somers himself or to Burnet, the latter of whom found a public disavowal necessary.
Pending more conclusive evidence from the spectroscope, the interpretation of the peculiar surface rotation of the sun appears to be that the central parts of the body are rotating faster than those outside them; for if such were the case the observed phenomenon would arise.
Pending his return the administration was left in the hands of General Campo Serrano and General Eliseo Payan.
Up to 1905 it was also the case in France, where the ancient local customs now continue, pending the reorganization of the Church without the concordat.
Pending the work of a second Brehon Law Commission, the Laws are best studied in the six imperfect volumes (Ancient Laws of Ireland, 1865-1901) produced by the first Commission (ignoring their long and worthless introductions), together with Dr. Whitley Stokes's Criticism (London, Nutt, 1903) of Atkinson's Glossary (Dublin, 1901).
In modern times the population remains sparse, and pending the complete restoration of the water conduits the soil is unproductive.
Pending this regeneration of society St Just advised the rule of a dictator.
The disaster of Aboukir (August 1, 1798) speedily decided the coalition pending between England, Austria, the Empire, Portugal, Naples, Russia and Turkey.
Pending the dissolution and general election, Sagasta and his colleagues paid most attention to public peace and foreign affairs.
It was agreed that hostilities should cease on sea and, land, but that Spain should evacuate Cuba and Porto Rico pending the negotiations for a peace treaty which were to begin in Paris at the end of September 1898.
A cry went up that to allow dissident churches to announce their presence was to insult and persecute the Catholic I at Rome the decree was attacked as unconstitutional, and a breach of diplomatic propriety all the more reprehensible as negotiations for a revision of the concordat were actually pending.
The Senate refused to ratify it; but a protocol provided for a modus vivendi pending ratification, giving American fishing vessels similar advantages to those contemplated in the treaty; and on the whole Mr Chamberlain's mission to America was accepted as a successful one in maintaining satisfactory relations with the United States.
He formed a regency ministry pending the arrival of his majesty, who confirmed his appointment, and for six years Canovas was premier except during the short-lived cabinets of Marshal Jovellar in 1875 and Marshal Campos for a few months in 1879.
In spite of Martha's pending departure, they gloried in the early summer sunshine, rocking contentedly in a few stolen minutes of relaxation.
They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.
May I assume you're not a serial killer stalking me and this spying business has something to do with my pending litigation?
Legal action is still pending regarding the custody of Smith's five-month-old daughter.
Due to his pending divorce and his estranged wife's accusation of the Hulkster hiding assets, those assets have been frozen by the judge until the Hogan's financial issues can be straightened out.
Frederick William, whose temper was by no means so ruthlessly Spartan as tradition has painted it,was overjoyed, and commissioned the clergyman to receive from the prince an oath of filial obedience, and in exchange for this proof of "his intention to improve in real earnest" his arrest was to be lightened, pending the earning of a full pardon.
The two Nuneaton men arrested following the football match on suspicion of causing affray were released on police bail pending further enquiries.
Cash associated with excess appropriations in aid may, however, be applied against an excess cash requirement, pending its approval.
However, Owners were able to stay that action, pending arbitration in London.
It is currently closed pending a major renovation scheme to restore it to its 1930s art deco glory.
The youth was released on unconditional bail pending reports.
In 2003 with a big cruise pending, I recovered an ELCB and some magnetic mains circuit breakers from a scrapped power distribution box.
Otherwise clicking this bottom button opens a window which displays the text pending coincidences and a list of these.
It has been out of service for 15 years pending completion of an overhaul.
The order for maintenance pending suit to the wife therefore concluded with his judgment of 9 March 2005.
The settlement remains conditional for a short time pending certain procedural formalities.
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The chief immigration officer told us that removals were always deferred pending police investigations.
He was taken away to Durham Jail pending deportation.
The court served the interim ASBO pending the determination of the application for the full ASBO.
On 11th December she was laid up at Kames Bay, Isle of Bute pending disposal.