Word Meanings - BY-DEPENDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

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• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DISTINCTIVE
  1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• APPENDAGE
  A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. (more info) 1. Something appended to, or accompanying,
• APPENDAGED
  Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
• ACCESSORY
  Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he
• DISTINCTLY
  1. With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly. 2. With meaning; significantly. Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores. Shak. Syn. -- Separately;
• DISTINCTIVELY
  With distinction; plainly.
• DEPENDENCE
  1. The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support. 2. The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection . The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon
• DISTINCT
  1. Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name. Milton. 2. Marked; variegated. The which was dight With divers flowers distinct
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.
• INDISTINCT
  1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." Shak. 2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused;
• INDEPENDENCE
  1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• UNDISTINCTIVE
  Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.
• CONTRADISTINCTIVE
  having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast. -- Con`tra*dis*tinc"tive, n.
• INTERDEPENDENCE
  Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.