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Pending vs Pendent - What's the difference?

pending | pendent |

As adjectives the difference between pending and pendent

is that pending is awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation while pendent is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

As a verb pending

is present participle of lang=en.

As a preposition pending

is while waiting for something; until.

As a noun pendent is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

pending

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation
  • begun but not completed
  • about to happen; imminent or impending

    • See also

    * impending

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • While waiting for something; until.

    • 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)
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