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DEPENDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
Synonyms:
dependant; dependent
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dependent" is a kind of...):
receiver; recipient (a person who receives something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dependent"):
charge (a person committed to your care)
minion (a servile or fawning dependant)
Derivation:
dependent (relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Addicted to a drug
Synonyms:
dependant; dependent; drug-addicted; hooked; strung-out
Classified under:
Similar:
addicted (compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming)
Derivation:
dependence; dependency (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Contingent on something else
Synonyms:
dependant; dependent; qualified
Classified under:
Similar:
conditional (imposing or depending on or containing a condition)
Derivation:
depend (be contingent upon (something that is elided))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
Example:
dependent on moisture
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
underage (dependent by virtue of youth)
symbiotic (used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each)
reliant (relying on another for support)
bloodsucking; leechlike; parasitic; parasitical (of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another)
myrmecophilous (living symbiotically with ants)
interdependent; mutualist; mutually beneficial (mutually dependent)
helpless (unable to manage independently)
babelike (like a baby especially in dependence)
Also:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
Attribute:
independence; independency (freedom from control or influence of another or others)
Antonym:
independent (free from external control and constraint)
Derivation:
dependence; dependency (the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else)
dependent (a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support))
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
Example:
a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence
Synonyms:
dependent; subordinate
Classified under:
Adjectives
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Antonym:
independent ((of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
Example:
a dependent prince
Synonyms:
dependent; subject
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
subordinate (subject or submissive to authority or the control of another)
Derivation:
dependency (a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Held from above and hanging down
Example:
a pendant bunch of grapes
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
supported (held up or having the weight borne especially from below)
Context examples:
Further experiments showed that, in all three mouse models, the reduction in liver tumor growth that resulted from antibiotic treatment was dependent on these NKT cells.
(Study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver, National Institutes of Health)
These pathways likely disappeared as Pneumocystis evolved to become highly dependent on its mammalian host to stay alive.
(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)
Some observations indicate Ceres may be a volatile-rich world that is not dependent on current-day external sources.
(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)
The work demonstrates that the protective effects of HDL are more dependent upon how it functions than merely how much of it is present.
(When HDL cholesterol doesn’t protect against heart disease, NIH)
The advantage of this mechanism is that the long-term maintenance of body fluids isn’t as dependent on external water sources as once believed.
(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)
One key protein that AKAP95 interacts with is the cAMP-dependent protein kinase, PKA.
(AKAP8 in Mitosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This protein is involved in the modulation of mineralcorticoid and glucocorticoid-dependent gene transcription.
(Mineralocorticoid Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)
Microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3-II proteins (LC3-II) are products of the autophagy-dependent processing of microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3 family proteins (LC3).
(Microtubule-Associated Proteins 1A/1B Light Chain 3-II, NCI Thesaurus)
After intracellular uptake, mericitabine is phosphorylated into two active triphosphate metabolites, which disable HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (non-structural protein 5B; NS5B) upon binding.
(Mericitabine, NCI Thesaurus)
AIF-induced apoptosis is important during development but is not caspase dependent.
(Mitochondria in Apoptotic Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
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