As nouns the difference between pendant and necklace
is that
pendant is a supporting post attached to the main rafter while
necklace is an article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
As a verb necklace is
to informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
pendant English
Alternative forms
* pendaunt (obsolete)
Noun
( en noun)
(architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
(obsolete, in the plural) Testicles.
A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
(nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
The dangling part of an earring.
(obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
* Keightley
- Many have been pleased with this work and its pendant , the Tales and Popular Fictions.
(fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
- One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
(obsolete) A pendulum.
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(US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
- (Knight)
Related terms
* to depend
* to impend
* penchant
* to pend
* pendent
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necklace English
Noun
( en noun)
An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
(figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
- a necklace of coral islands
(South Africa) A method of informal execution in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
* (projectlink)
* 4 August, 2004' Headline Pretoria News: ' Necklacing: 7 held .
- Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace " murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
* 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution
* 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
Verb
( necklac)
(South Africa) To informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
* May 29 2003 : The Star:
- Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.
* 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
- Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced , and their houses have been destroyed
* 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.
Derived terms
* necklacing
* pearl necklace
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