depended
past simple and past participle ofdepend
| 单词 | depended |
| 释义 | depended past simple and past participle ofdepend depend verb[I] uk/dɪˈpend/us/dɪˈpend/B1 to bedecidedby or tochangeaccordingto thestatedthing: Whether or not we go to Mexico forourholidaydependsonthecost. [+ question word]I might go to thecinematomorrow-itdependswhattimeI gethomefromwork. it (all) dependsB1informal it is notdecidedyet: "Are you going to Emma'sparty?" "I don'tknow, it depends - we might be going away thatweekend."
Being based on or depending on something
Phrasal verbdepend on/uponsomeone/something Examplesofdependeddepended In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The share it acquireddependedon the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée. From theCambridge English Corpus The prices on each activitydependedmore on a billing structure than the true labor and material that comprised the activity. From theCambridge English Corpus This pattern of changedependedon the storage temperature. From theCambridge English Corpus Further, theydependedeconomically on the companies, and these were unwilling to pay higher prices. From theCambridge English Corpus Above all, their ideology of circulationdependedon economically based assumptions about knowledge and communication. From theCambridge English Corpus We saw above that the number of elderly individuals whodependedon poor relief increased over the course of the eighteenth century. From theCambridge English Corpus This tailoring of approaches to suit his intended audiencedependedupon a careful appreciation of the desires of each party and strict secrecy. From theCambridge English Corpus In the past, the norms ascribed to members of the communitydependedon their capacity as producers. From theCambridge English Corpus Due taxes were reckoned in proportion to one's income, whereas voluntary undertaking of public expenditures, called 'liturgies',dependedon one's wealth and sense of altruism. From theCambridge English Corpus Generally, such aspects of economic theorydependedon historically specific institutions. From theCambridge English Corpus The total perfect score was 32 and individual perfect scoresdependedon the number of correct scores they had. From theCambridge English Corpus Reactions of hearing people to the deaf were mixed, and in part would havedependedon the degree of contact they had with them. From theCambridge English Corpus In fact, the decentralisation project threatened the clientelist politicians whodependedon health care patronage to sustain the political networks that underpinned their electoral machines. From theCambridge English Corpus However, everythingdependedon human cases to provide infective material and volunteers to detect it. From theCambridge English Corpus The rate and order of the lossdependedmainly on the declensional class. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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