1. A family member, or other person, who is supported financially by someone; especially, a person living in the same house.
2. Needing something; such as, having a physical, or psychological, need to use a drug or other substance regularly: Some people are dependent on alcohol, drugs, or the uncontrolled consumption of certain kinds of food.
3. A need to rely on, or to trust, in someone or something for help or support; especially, financial support.

A colony in which a majority of the native population is ruled by a small number of representatives from the controlling nation.

A purplish color assumed by the lowest-lying parts of a recently dead body due to the downward flow and pooling of blood under the influence of gravity.

A two-electrode semiconductor device having a voltage-dependent nonlinear resistance.

Its resistance drops as the applied voltage is increased.