Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Grammatically incomplete. Also
pendant . - Hanging; suspended; pendulous.
- Jutting over; overhanging; projecting: as, a pendent rock.
- In botany, hanging on its stalk or support with the apex pointed vertically downward, as a flower or fruit.
- A pendentive.
- noun See
pendant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging.
- adjective Jutting over; projecting; overhanging.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Dangling ,drooping orsuspended . - adjective
pending in various senses. - adjective grammar, of a sentence
incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb. - adjective obsolete
Projecting over something;overhanging . - noun Alternative spelling of
pendant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling
- adjective held from above
- noun an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This week reaffirms that America's public discourse remains shrouded under a right-wing paradigm, for which many of us remain codependent enablers.
Byron Williams: Right-wing still controls the paradigm of public discourse 2010
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This week reaffirms that America's public discourse remains shrouded under a right-wing paradigm, for which many of us remain codependent enablers.
Byron Williams: Right-wing still controls the paradigm of public discourse 2010
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But people in codependent relationships can quickly spiral into destructive, dysfunctional patterns of behavior.
Speedlinking 6/13/07 William Harryman 2007
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Hams and bacon hung pendent from the heavy rafters, and a line of dish towels and clean shirts behind the range suggested something of the modern cosy, or uncosy, corner.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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_Lambrequin_: Originally a kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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From bent wood pendent lights to sculptural steel plant walls, their portfolio is chalk full of inventive and inspiring pieces.
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The diamond is set in a pendent in which it is encircled by sixteen white diamonds, indeed an excellent engagement ring for your loved one.
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A similar distinction persists with pendant/pendent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution 2010
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Their lips were less flabby and pendent, and their eye-teeth did not look so much like fangs.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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The moisture that exhaled with his breath crusted his lips and mustache with pendent ice and formed a miniature glacier on his chin.
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