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Pendent vs Swinging - What's the difference?

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Pendent is a synonym of swinging.


As adjectives the difference between pendent and swinging

is that pendent is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended while swinging is (informal) fine, good, successful.

As nouns the difference between pendent and swinging

is that pendent is while swinging is the act or motion of that which swings.

As a verb swinging 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)
    • ----

    swinging

    English

    (wikipedia swinging)

    Noun

  • The act or motion of that which swings.
  • * 1973 , Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
    • Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism
  • An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Fine, good, successful.
    • The party was swinging .