depends
- 1Third-person singular simple present of depend.
The outcome of the trial depends largely on the witness's testimony.
Crop yield depends on the amount of rainfall during the growing season.
Note
The -s form that pairs with a singular subject: it, she, the outcome, the harvest. Because nearly every meaning of depend is intransitive, this form usually needs a following on or upon to name the condition, as in success depends on timing. The rarer meanings use it too. In literary or heraldic description a badge depends from a ribbon, hanging rather than relying, and the preposition shifts with the sense.
depends is a form of depend
depend, verb: To be determined or conditioned by something else, which serves as a necessary condition for it. Full entry
- Spelling
- depend → depends: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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