| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a manner to dispose.[Websters]
2. In a concluding manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a developing manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a coordinated manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an assorted manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a governing manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a synchronized manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an encouraging, stimulating or excited manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In an inflamed or exciting manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective disposing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Disposing) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb dispose.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dispose) | 1. Give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions".[Wordnet]. 2. Throw or cast away.[Wordnet]. 3. Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief.[Wordnet]. 4. Place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed".[Wordnet]. 5. Make fit or prepared.[Wordnet]. 6. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.[Websters]. 7. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.[Websters]. 8. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.[Websters]. 9. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.[Websters]. 10. To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.[Websters]. 11. To bargain; to make terms.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: disposing, disposed, disposes, disposer, disposers, disposingly and disposedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DISPOSINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dispose
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] dispoze.. | 2: [Verb] To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to order. The ships were disposed in the form of a crescent. The general disposed his troops in three lines. The trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.. | 3: [Verb] To regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. Job 34 and 37. The knightly forms of combat to dispose.. | 4: [Verb] To apply to a particular purpose; to give; to place; to bestow; as, you have disposed much in works of public piety. In this sense, to dispose of is more generally used.. | 5: [Verb] To set, place or turn to a particular end or consequence. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose to future good our past and present woes.. | 6: [Verb] To adapt; to form for any purpose. Then must thou thee dispose another way.. | 7: [Verb] To set the mind in a particular frame; to incline. Avarice disposes men to fraud and oppression. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. He was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts 18. 1 Corinthians 10:27. To dispose of,. | 8: [Verb] To part with; to alienate; as, the man has disposed of his house, and removed.. | 9: [Verb] To part with to another; to put into anothers hand or power; to bestow; as, the father has disposed of his daughter to a man of great worth.. | 10: [Verb] To give away or transfer by authority. A rural judge disposed of beautys prize.. | 11: [Verb] To direct the course of a thing. Proverbs 16.. | 12: [Verb] To place in any condition; as, how will you dispose of your son?. | 13: [Verb] To direct what to do or what course to pursue; as, they know not how to dispose of themselves.. | 14: [Verb] To use or employ; as, they know not how to dispose of their time.. | 15: [Verb] To put away. The stream supplies more water than can be disposed of.. | 16: [Verb] To bargain; to make terms.. | 17: [Noun] Disposal; power of disposing; management.. | 18: [Noun] Dispensation; act of government.. | 19: [Noun] Disposition; cast of behavior.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Technology | To carry out disposition instructions to destroy or donate temporary records after their retention period expires or other documentary material without permanent value. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To deal out; to assign to a use. (references) | 2: [Verb] To distribute and put in place. (references) | 3: [Verb] To eliminate or to get rid of something. I dispose of my trash in the garbage can. (references) | 4: [Verb] To incline In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution. (Used here intransitively in the passive voice). (references) |
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Common Expressions: dispose
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dispose of | Deal with or settle. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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