Payable vs Pended - What's the difference?
payable | pended |
(plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
A thing that may be paid.
That which is to be paid.
Able to be paid.
Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.
(pend)
(obsolete) To hang down.
(obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
To hang; to depend.
* I. Taylor
(Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 817:
*:The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.
(India) oil cake
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As a noun payable
is (plural) debts owed by a business; liabilities.As an adjective payable
is that which is to be paid.As a verb pended is
(pend).payable
English
Noun
Adjective
(en adjective)- Is value added tax payable on planning application fees?
Derived terms
*payability *payablypended
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----pend
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- pending upon certain powerful motions