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  • 21pendent — pen|dent [ˈpendənt] adj literary or technical [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: pendant hanging (13 20 centuries), from French ( PENDANT); influenced by Latin pendens, present participle of pendere ( PENDANT)] hanging from something ▪ a pendent lamp …

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  • 22pendent — adjective the tree s pendent catkins Syn: hanging, suspended, dangling, pendulous, pensile, pendant, drooping, droopy, trailing …

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  • 23pendent — pendulous / pendent [adj] hanging dangling, dependent, drooping, pending, pendulant, pensile, suspended, swinging; concepts 485,584 …

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  • 24pendent — adj. (also pendant) 1 a hanging. b overhanging. 2 undecided; pending. 3 Gram. (esp. of a sentence) incomplete; not having a finite verb (pendent nominative). Derivatives: pendency n. Etymology: ME (as PENDANT) …

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  • 25pendent — adj. [L. pendere, to hang] Hanging; suspended from above; pendulous adj …

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  • 26pendent — pen|dẹnt 〈Adj.; schweiz.〉 schwebend, unerledigt ● ein pendentes Gerichtsverfahren [zu lat. pendens, Part. Präs. von pendere „hängen, herabhängen, schweben“] * * * pen|dẹnt <Adj.> [zu lat. pendens (Gen.: pendentis), 1. Part. von: pendere,… …

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  • 27pendent — Synonyms and related words: at issue, cascading, conditional, conditioned, contingent, dangling, dependent, depending, falling, falling loosely, flowing, hanging, hung, in question, in suspense, in the balance, open, pending, pendulant, pendular …

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  • 28pendent — pen|dent Mot Agut Adjectiu invariable …

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  • 29pendent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hanging (see pendency); pending (see lateness). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pendant, Dependent, suspended; see hanging . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. hanging, suspended, dangling …

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  • 30pendent — pen|dẹnt 〈Adj.; schweiz.〉 schwebend, unerledigt [Etym.: <lat. pendens, Part. Präs. von pendere »hängen, herabhängen, schweben«] …

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