dependent

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support. US
    — With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
  2. An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners. US
  3. The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages. US
  4. dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance. US
形容词 adj.
  1. Relying upon; depending upon.
    — At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.
  2. Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
    — The formula for finding the probability of one event followed by a dependent event is written P(A, B) = P(A) × P(B/A) where P(B/A) is read “the probability of B given A.”
  3. Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
  4. Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
    — Several groups have shown that the gravitational distribution of pleural pressure is much more uniform when animals are in a prone rather than in a supine position, […] After volume-infusion-induced pulmonary oedema, Ppl was positive in the dependent lung regions in supine animals but much less positive in those in the prone position.
  5. Hanging down.
    — a dependent bough or leaf

词形变化

more dependent comparative most dependent superlative dependant alternative,obsolete dependents plural dependant alternative,Commonwealth,UK

词汇关系

近义词
reliant contingent dependent
反义词
independent self-reliant
上位词
connected
下位词
conditional
衍生词
accommodating dependent antedependent case dependent case-dependent context-dependent cyber-dependent dependapotamus dependently dependent personality disorder disquieted dependent domestic dependent nation hyperdependent immature dependent ineffectual dependent inter-dependent interdependent language-dependent light-dependent resistor linearly dependent nondependent order-dependent overdependent passive-dependent phosphodependent photodependent redshift-dependent selfless dependent semidependent system-dependent time-dependent undependent co-dependent depending
相关词
agreeable correspondent friendly depend dependee dependence dependency dependent clause dependent variable depender

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.
词源 2
From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.
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