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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɛndənt/
• 韻: -ɛndənt
• Homophone: pendant

形容詞

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)

1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 312–314:

     Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]

   • 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:

     Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]

   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 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.

2. Pending (in various senses).
3. (architecture, of a structure) 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.
4. (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
   • 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:

     Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.

   • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89:

     Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.

   • 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49:

     JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.

   • 1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe:

     page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.

5. (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
6. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

派生語

• pendent jurisdiction
• pendently

関連する語

• pendentive

名詞

pendent (plural pendents)

1. Alternative spelling of pendant.

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