What's the difference between pend and postpone?

Pend


Definition:

  • (n.) Oil cake; penock.
  • (v. i.) To hang; to depend.
  • (v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
  • (v. t.) To pen; to confine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (2) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
  • (3) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
  • (4) Catheter occlusion of the right lower pulmonary artery allowed evaluation of the integrity of the remaining pulmonary vascular bed as well as improvement of the patient's hemodynamic condition pending more definitive therapy.
  • (5) The spokesman added that there were already "quite a few cases pending".
  • (6) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
  • (7) The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," and by Alexander Morgan Capron in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: not now."
  • (8) Greens in the European parliament, as well as in France and Germany , called for the conference to be postponed pending an investigation of the allegations.
  • (9) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
  • (10) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
  • (11) These conclusions must be considered tentative, pending other studies to disprove the presence of new molecular species with no change in net charge or size.
  • (12) As pharmacists are legally or unofficially involved in many areas with few facilities, it may be questioned how their contribution may be more effective pending the development of more extensive official programs.
  • (13) The TLU was well tolerated by the patients; only two patients refused the TLU pending discussion of the technique with their obstetrician.
  • (14) Although supporters have stumped up £180,000, it is expected bail will be refused, pending a full hearing of Sweden's extradition request.
  • (15) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
  • (16) Successful application of CAD technology for bridge to transplant or pending recovery of the natural heart requires understanding issues involving team readiness, patient selection, device limitations, patient management, and complications.
  • (17) But the pending toughening of the rules merely angers lawyers acting for the detainees even more – why, they ask, did the Obama administration not act more quickly to effect transfers before the squeeze was imposed.
  • (18) Pending delivery, which is the only definitive therapy for preeclampsia, maternal complications of intracerebral hemorrhage and eclampsia may be prevented with judicious use of antihypertensive medication (e.g., hydralazine) and magnesium sulfate, respectively.
  • (19) Balls's intervention came in the wake of News International announcing yesterday that Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor, had been suspended before Christmas pending an investigation into whether he had instructed reporters to hack phones, or had knowledge of the practice.
  • (20) He is reported to have expressed ­unhappiness at his own pending deployment and of US troops being responsible for the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Postpone


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
  • (v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose was to show whether or not the methylene-blue test can be postponed to the second day.
  • (2) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
  • (3) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
  • (4) Two additional patients became asymptomatic after ECA endarterectomy only and their proposed STA-MCA bypass has been postponed.
  • (5) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (6) Squirrel monkeys trained to respond under a schedule in which each response postponed the delivery of electric shock developed a steady rate of responding.
  • (7) When dose 3 of antigen (BSA or EA) was postponed to day +21, all mouse strains sensitized by the multiple-dose procedure were found to be susceptible to shock.
  • (8) Thus, the clinical threshold where functions disappear is postponed for longer periods of time.
  • (9) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
  • (10) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
  • (11) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (12) Its consequences are extensive, damaging procedures and a postponement of a diagnosis which integrates somatic, psychic and social components by seven to eight years.
  • (13) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
  • (14) Pretreatment with nifedipine postponed EMD until 120-150 seconds and was not observed in dogs on CPB.
  • (15) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
  • (16) Gerrard genuinely has postponed the issue while he pours his life into this tournament.
  • (17) The Nepalese government has announced that it has postponed a return to classes for schoolchildren across the country by two weeks, to 29 May.
  • (18) It is believed that support for Bernstein's attempt to postpone the election came from these areas, in reaction to the process that led to Bin Hammam's exclusion from football activity, rather than being a demonstration of anger at the effect of recent corruption allegations.
  • (19) The basic enviromental causes of enteric disease are clear, current conditions have been aggravated by rapid population growth and urbanization, and basic corrective measures have already been postponed long enough.
  • (20) "Had Obama even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip," it said.