WordNet
v. be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the electin"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn: devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon]
Usage examples of "depend on".
A large number of eggs is of some importance to those species, which depend on a rapidly fluctuating amount of food, for it allows them rapidly to increase in number.
They certainly never have suffered, and never will suffer, the fixed estate of the church to be converted into a pension, to depend on the treasury and to be delayed, withheld, or perhaps to be extinguished by fiscal difficulties, which difficulties may sometimes be pretended for political purposes, and are in fact often brought on by the extravagance, negligence, and rapacity of politicians.
She would still depend on Heaven for a mother's love, no matter how old she got.
Was Pete's crazy plan too complicated, did it depend on too many things going right?
She had used up so many of her regular seeds that she could no longer depend on them.
They would depend on the radar to find him, instead of sending out the other jet boats.
If we depend on these two clumsy bowbs to bring the screens back we might as well throw in the towel.
There were also no signs to tell him where he was, so he would have to depend on Curly's tracker and his own innate sense of direction to get around.
It was intended for Thomas that he should make a man of himself on his own merits without having to depend on his famous father.
That is why I often find it necessary to depend on reason to convince skeptics of the validity of my case.