Pendent vs Necklace - What's the difference?
pendent | necklace |
Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
* 1986 , Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
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.
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.
(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.
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* 4 August, 2004' Headline Pretoria News: ' Necklacing: 7 held .
* 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
* 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
(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:
* 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
* 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
As nouns the difference between pendent and necklace
is that pendent is 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 an adjective pendent
is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.As a verb necklace is
(south africa) to informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.pendent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders
- An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
necklace
English
Noun
(en noun)- a necklace of coral islands
- Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace " murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
- Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution
- In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
Verb
(necklac)- 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.
- Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced , and their houses have been destroyed
- The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.
