| dependent | | |
| n. (person) | 1. dependant, dependent | a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support). |
| ~ recipient, receiver | a person who receives something. |
| ~ charge | a person committed to your care.; "the teacher led her charges across the street" |
| ~ minion | a servile or fawning dependant. |
| adj. | 2. dependent | relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed.; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" |
| ~ babelike | like a baby especially in dependence.; "babelike innocence and dependence" |
| ~ helpless | unable to manage independently.; "as helpless as a baby" |
| ~ interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial | mutually dependent. |
| ~ myrmecophilous | living symbiotically with ants. |
| ~ leechlike, bloodsucking, parasitical, parasitic | of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another.; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence" |
| ~ reliant | relying on another for support.; "dependent on Middle Eastern oil" |
| ~ symbiotic | used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each. |
| ~ underage | dependent by virtue of youth. |
| ~ unfree | hampered and not free; not able to act at will. |
| adj. | 3. dependant, dependent, qualified | contingent on something else. |
| ~ conditional | imposing or depending on or containing a condition.; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" |
| adj. | 4. dependent, subordinate | (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence.; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence" |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
| adj. | 5. dependent, pendant, pendent | held from above.; "a pendant bunch of grapes" |
| ~ supported | held up or having the weight borne especially from below.; "supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends" |
| adj. | 6. dependent, subject | being under the power or sovereignty of another or others.; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" |
| ~ subordinate | subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.; "a subordinate kingdom" |
| adj. | 7. dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out | addicted to a drug. |
| ~ addicted | compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.; "she is addicted to chocolate"; "addicted to cocaine" |
| hinge | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. flexible joint, hinge | a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other. |
| ~ bi-fold door | an interior door. |
| ~ butt hinge | a hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb. |
| ~ car door | the door of a car. |
| ~ exterior door, outside door | a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building. |
| ~ french door | a light door with transparent or glazed panels extending the full length. |
| ~ gate | a movable barrier in a fence or wall. |
| ~ joint | junction by which parts or objects are joined together. |
| ~ pintle | a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge. |
| ~ joint hinge, strap hinge | a hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame. |
| ~ swing door, swinging door | a door that swings on a double hinge; opens in either direction. |
| ~ t hinge, tee hinge | a hinge that looks like the letter T when it is opened; similar to a strap hinge except that one strap has been replaced by half of a butt hinge that can be mortised flush into the stationary frame. |
| n. (state) | 2. hinge | a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend.; "his absence is the hinge of our plan" |
| ~ circumstance | a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity. |
| v. (contact) | 3. hinge | attach with a hinge. |
| ~ attach | cause to be attached. |
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