Definition of "depend"

depend

/dɪˈpɛnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present depends, present participle depending, simple past and past participle depended
1. (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
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  Gold don't carry any curse with it. It all depends on whether or not the guy who finds it is the right guy. The way I see it, gold can be as much of a blessing as a curse
  1948, John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, spoken by Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart)
2. (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
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  "It's another wedding present, you may depend," Dicky said—"a beastly surprise, I shouldn't wonder."
  1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 1
3. (now literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
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  The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.
  1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  Bronze chandeliers with many globes depended from the low, slightly vaulted ceiling, and the fresco paintings ran flat and dull all round the walls without windows, representing scenes of the chase and of outdoor revelry in medieval costumes.
  1907, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
  He had prepared a sort of collar of leather with many straps depending from it.
  1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
  Besides, if you worked up to be a cadet officer, you got to wear a Sam Browne belt, from which depended a nifty saber.
  1982, Paul Fussell, My War
4. (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
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  While the Bishops Affair was depending, the King sent orders [...]
  1703, The History Of King William The Third. In III Parts
  In perjury, the capias, warrant, and affidavit, are good evidence that a cause was depending.
  1836, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
  "A Letter of the King sent to his Proctors at Rome, concerning a Case of his in the said Court depending."
  1837, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 544
5. (transitive) To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.
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  There he wilted, obviously depending the disposal of his person and his plight on Bradly, and expecting that to be done at once, too.
  1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 65

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