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depending

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //dɪˈpɛn.dɪŋ//
  • //də-//
  • //di-//

Suspended or hanging from another element, such as a shield, helmet, crest, or a badge hanging from a chain.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of dependpresent participle and gerund of depend

    Johnson said, “Depending on how it melts, a lot of the freshwater will be leaving the region for the ocean, which will have severe impacts on water and food security."

adjective

  1. 1

    Suspended or hanging from another element, such as a shield, helmet, crest, or a badge hanging from a chain.

    Behind the shield are placed in saltire two batons representing that belonging to his office, and round the shield is placed a gold collar of SS, and a triple chain also of gold, and depending from it the proper badge of Lyon King of Arms.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).