Fascinate vs Dependent - What's the difference?
fascinate | dependent |
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to
Relying upon; depending upon.
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(medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
Hanging down.
(US) One who relies on another for support
(grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
(grammar) 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.
As a verb fascinate
is to evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.As a noun dependent is
.fascinate
English
Verb
(fascinat)- The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
- We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
- Her gait fascinates all men.
dependent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Noun
(en noun)- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)