What does Dispose mean?
Definitions for Dispose
dɪˈspoʊzdis·pose
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Dispose.
Princeton's WordNet
disposeverb
give, sell, or transfer to another
"She disposed of her parents' possessions"
discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put awayverb
throw or cast away
"Put away your worries"
dispose, inclineverb
make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
"Their language inclines us to believe them"
disposeverb
place or put in a particular order
"the dots are unevenly disposed"
qualify, disposeverb
make fit or prepared
"Your education qualifies you for this job"
Wiktionary
disposeverb
To eliminate or to get rid of something.
I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.
disposeverb
To distribute and put in place.
disposeverb
To deal out; to assign to a use.
disposeverb
To incline
In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution. (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
Etymology: From disposer.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Disposenoun
Etymology: from the verb.
All that is mine I leave at thy dispose;
My goods, my lands, my reputation. William Shakespeare.It shall be my task
To render thee the Parthian at dispose. John Milton, Parad. Reg.Of all your goodness leaves to our dispose,
Our liberty’s the only gift we chuse. John Dryden, Indian Emp.All is best, though oft we doubt
What th’ unsearchable dispose
Of highest wisdom brings about,
And ever best found in the close. John Milton, Agonistes.He hath a person, and a smooth dispose,
To be suspected; fram’d to make women false. William Shakespeare, Othello.He carries on the stream of his dispose
Without observance or respect of any,
In will peculiar. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressid.To DISPOSEverb
Etymology: disposer, French; dispono, Latin.
Thus whilst she did her various pow’r dispose,
The world was free from tyrants, wars, and woes. Matthew Prior.Yet see, when noble benefits shall prove
Not well dispos’d, the mind grown once corrupt,
They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly
Than ever they were fair. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.Of what you gathered, as most your own, you have disposed much in works of publick piety. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.
Endure, and conquer; Jove will soon dispose,
To future good, our past and present woes. John Dryden, Virgil.These, when the knights beheld, they ’gan dispose
Themselves to court, and each a damsel chose. Fai. Queen.But if thee list unto the court to throng,
And there to haunt after the hoped prey,
Then must thou thee dispose another way. Hubberd’s Tale.Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. Francis Bacon, Essays.
The memory of what they had suffered, by being without it, easily disposed them to do this. Edward Hyde, b. viii.
He knew the seat of Paradise,
And, as he was dispos’d, could prove it
Below the moon, or else above it. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 1.This disposes men to believe what it teaches, to follow what it advises. William Temple.
A man might do this now, if he were maliciously disposed, and had a mind to bring matters to extremity. John Dryden, Spa. Fry.
This may dispose me, perhaps, for the reception of truth; but helps me not to it. John Locke.
Although the frequency of prayer and fasting may be of no efficacy to dispose God to be more gracious, yet it is of great use to dispose us to be more objects of his grace. George Smalridge.
If mere moralists find themselves disposed to pride, lust, intemperance, or avarice, they do not think their morality concerned to check them. Jonathan Swift.
Wak’d by the cries, th’ Athenian chief arose,
The knightly forms of combat to dispose. John Dryden, Fables.All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature. John Locke.
Dispose of the meat with the butler, or any other crony. Jonathan Swift.
As she is mine, I may dispose of her;
Which shall be either to this gentleman,
Or to her death. William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream.I have disposed of her to a man of business, who will let her see, that to be well dressed in good humour, and chearful in her family, are the arts and sciences of female life. Tatler.
A rural judge dispos’d of beauty’s prize. Edmund Waller.
The lot is cast unto the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Prov. xvi. 33.
They must receive instructions how to dispose of themselves when they come, which must be in the nature of laws unto them. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.
For the remaining doubt,
What to resolve, and how dispose of me,
Be warn’d to cast that useless care aside. John Dryden, Fables.They require more water than can be found, and more than can be disposed of, if it was found. Thomas Burnet, Th. of Earth.
To Disposeverb
To bargain; to make terms. Obsolete.
When she saw you did suspect
She had dispos’d with Cæsar, and that your rage
Would not be purg’d, she sent word she was dead. William Shakespeare.
Wikipedia
dispose
In object-oriented programming, the dispose pattern is a design pattern for resource management. In this pattern, a resource is held by an object, and released by calling a conventional method – usually called close, dispose, free, release depending on the language – which releases any resources the object is holding onto. Many programming languages offer language constructs to avoid having to call the dispose method explicitly in common situations. The dispose pattern is primarily used in languages whose runtime environment have automatic garbage collection (see motivation below).
ChatGPT
dispose
Dispose generally means to get rid of something or arrange in a particular way. It can refer to throwing something away, selling or giving it away. It can also mean to make someone inclined or willing towards an action or attitude.
Webster Dictionary
Disposeverb
to distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent
Disposeverb
to regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine
Disposeverb
to deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of
Disposeverb
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
Disposeverb
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
Disposeverb
to bargain; to make terms
Disposenoun
disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control
Disposenoun
cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Dispose
dis-pōz′, 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. [Fr. disposer, dis—L. dis, asunder, poser, to place.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
dispose
To dispose cannon, is to place it in such a manner that its discharge may do the greatest mischief.
British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Dispose' in Verbs Frequency: #846
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Dispose in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Dispose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Dispose in a Sentence
We will not use or dispose of any unspent funds now that the law is in effect, the unspent funds will be returned.
Unfortunately, just as with opioids, these medicines are far too accessible in bathrooms and bedrooms and kitchen cabinets all over the country, there are increasing numbers of pharmacies and hospitals and health systems that are building take-back programs for individuals seeking to dispose of these medicines. So I think we'll see more of these in the coming years.
And then when it's done, I'm not allowed to reuse that trailer. I can't refurbish it and reuse it. We have to dispose of it.
Prices to dispose of waste are insanely high. To dispose of 1 tonne of mercury-contaminated waste, the market charges 20,000 yuan ($3,152ot ), which of course will encourage people to dump it illegally.
The FDA has specific instructions on how to dispose of these medications, and the American Pharmacists Association has adopted this as their standard. Yet The FDA's not being given to the consumer correctly the majority of the time.
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