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Chandelier vs Pendent - What's the difference?

chandelier | pendent |

As nouns the difference between chandelier and pendent

is that chandelier is a branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling while pendent is .

As an adjective pendent is

dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

chandelier

English

(wikipedia chandelier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
  • * 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi
    • She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
  • (auction) A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction. Also called a wall.
  • * 2007 , Frank Pope, "Dragon Sea: a true tale of treasure, archeology, and greed off the coast of Vietnam", Harcourt Books, p. 306.
    • A mysterious phone bidder was grabbing the pieces that no one else wanted—Mensun suspected this was the auction house "bidding against the chandelier," protecting itself against selling too low.
  • (obsolete, military) A portable frame used to support temporary wooden fences.
  • * 1747 , , The Scots Book , volume 9, p. 37. [http://books.google.com/books?id=FVwAAAAAYAAJ&dq=chandelier%20is%20a%20wooden%20frame&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=chandelier%20is%20a%20wooden%20frame&f=false]
    • Chandelier . A wooden frame, whereon are laid fascines or faggots, to cover the workmen in making approaches.
  • * 1994 , Todd A. Shallat, Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers , University of Texas Press, p. 32.
    • Europeans solved this problem by building a temporary fence with tightly bound sticks ("fascines") stacked into wooden frames ("chandeliers ").

    Related terms

    * bidding against the chandelier * candela * candelabrum * candid * candidate * candle * candlepower * candlestick * chandelier bidding * chandler * chandlery * electrolier

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    pendent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
    • The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders
  • * 1986 , Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
    • An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
  • pending in various senses.
  • either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
  • incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
  • (label) Projecting over something; overhanging.

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