Dispose
[dɪ'spəʊz] or [dɪ'spoz]
Definition
(verb.) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; 'Their language inclines us to believe them'.
(verb.) place or put in a particular order; 'the dots are unevenly disposed'.
(verb.) give, sell, or transfer to another; 'She disposed of her parents' possessions'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
(v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
(v. t.) To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To bargain; to make terms.
(n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
(n.) Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Arrange, range, rank, group, marshal, set, place, place in order.[2]. Adjust, regulate, settle, determine, set right.[3]. Incline, lead, move, induce, bias, predispose.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABRIDGMENT]
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Definition
v.t. to arrange: to distribute: to apply to a particular purpose: to make over by sale gift &c.: to bestow: to incline.—n. disposal management: behaviour disposition.—adj. Dispos′able.—n. Dispos′al the act of disposing: order: arrangement: management: right of bestowing.—p.adj. Disposed′ inclined of a certain disposition (with well ill &c.).—adv. Dispos′edly in good order: with measured steps.—n. Dispos′er.—p.adj. Dispos′ing that disposes.—adv. Dispos′ingly.—Dispose of to place in any condition: to apply to any purpose: to part with: to get rid of: to sell.
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Examples
- Few people of common prudence will do THAT; and whatever she saves, she will be able to dispose of. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But the owner of that stock necessarily wishes to dispose of as great a part of those goods as he can at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The reaper to be of real use must dispose of the grain properly as well as shear the stalks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr Merdle, with a dry, swallowing action, seemed to dispose of those qualities like a bolus; then added, 'As a sort of return for it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As everyone was out of the way but herself, Jo began to feel that she ought to dispose of herself with all speed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I accept the offer, said the Knight, as frankly as it is given; and I ask permission to dispose of Sir Maurice de Bracy at my own pleasure. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She is stouter, too, and altogether improved, continued Miss Rosalind, who was disposed to be very fat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Fanny was disposed to think the influence of London very much at war with all respectable attachments. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I announced myself and was disposed of with the highly satisfactory results embodied before you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The reader will naturally be disposed to ask whether it is intended to claim that Edison has brought about all this magnificent growth of the electric-lighting art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Few reached their objective, and those that did were readily disposed of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was present myself, and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself being disposed of in that way. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His last words had left a bad, harsh impression; he, at least, had failed in the disposing of a chance he was lord of. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yes, I am, Bill,' replied the young lady, disposing of its contents; 'and tired enough of it I am, too. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But as Faust was disposing of the last copies of this book in the French capital he was seized with the plague, and died almost immediately. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I hope,' said the lofty gentleman, with the air of finally disposing of the subject, 'that the lady's indisposition may be only temporary. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was infinitely the simplest and the safest way of disposing of him for the night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The difficulty of disposing of poor Mr. Woodhouse had been always felt in her husband's plans and her own, for a marriage between Frank and Emma. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Let us suppose that he generally disposes of his whole stock upon hand, or of goods to the value of his whole stock upon hand, once in the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He can safely pardon or neglect them, and his consciousness of his own superiority naturally disposes him to do so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Surrogate knows me, when I go down to be sworn; and disposes of me easily, as if there were a Masonic understanding between us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Man proposes and God disposes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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