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Pendent vs Sagging - What's the difference?

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Pendent is a related term of sagging.


As nouns the difference between pendent and sagging

is that pendent is while sagging is the act of something that sags.

As an adjective pendent

is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

As a verb sagging is

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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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
    • ----

    sagging

    English

    Noun

  • The act of something that sags.
  • * 1969 , Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings
    • It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.
  • A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear.

    • Verb

    (head)