Pending vs Future - What's the difference?
pending | future |
awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation
begun but not completed
about to happen; imminent or impending
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
(finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
As adjectives the difference between pending and future
is that pending is awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation while future is having to do with or occurring in the future.As a verb pending
is present participle of lang=en.As a preposition pending
is while waiting for something; until.As a noun future is
the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.pending
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* impendingfuture
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(wikipedia future)Noun
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}