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A container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts
Answer for the clue "A container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts ", 9 letters:
dispenser
Alternative clues for the word dispenser
- Container releasing its contents in prescribed amounts
- Vending machine, perhaps, faulty — drips seen
- Ailing president's no time for chemist, perhaps
- Depression not over, off to see pharmacist?
- Chemist is pounds in red, needing turnover
- Pharmacist in Norfolk town receiving writer with hesitation
- Vending machine
- Vending machine, essentially
Word definitions for dispenser in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a soap dispenser (= a container from which you get liquid soap ) cash dispenser COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cash ▪ Been to the cash dispenser , got a statement, then withdrawn everything except four pounds ninety-five ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "one who administers" (a household, etc.), c.1200 in surnames, from Anglo-French dispensour , Old French despenseor , from Latin dispensatorem , agent noun from dispensare (see dispense ). Meaning "a container that dispenses in fixed measure" is ...
Usage examples of dispenser.
In the spacious anteroom are three-way floor-length mirrors, a long vanity with tissues and cotton balls and individual mirrors, dispensers for lotions and astringent cleansers, little squirt bottles of antistatic and hairspray, nail buffers, a vending machine dispensing individual vials of various scents at a cost per ounce as exorbitant as if it were Parisian perfume.
While the two Heads and three time travelers walked in and took seats, Zat and a stunning Eurafrican woman, tall and narrow as a soda straw, put coins in the dispenser without asking what anyone wanted, and brought them-water.
Management issued memos, the sheep got their heads stuck in the fence, the gate, and under the feed dispenser, and Flip came periodically to hang on the gate between the paddock and the lab, flip the latch monotonously up and down, and look lovesick.
They were just finishing supper as Rohan ordered some hot soup and helped himself to bread and a few bottles of nonalcoholic beer which he took from an automatic dispenser built in the wall.
And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,--the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.
I got the impression he revered the Truthsayers, looked up to us as great dispensers of truth, wielding the sword of justice.
Eli Strone had been brought up believing that the Truthsayers were dispensers of justice, that the white-robed telepaths kept all crime and sin in abeyance.
Surely somebody less contemptuous should have won, a true believer who slavishly worked out the odds of various numerical formulations in order to maximise winning potential, someone who paid visits to the ticket dispenser with the regularity of a devout churchgoer?
The android deftly unclipped its chest console, swung aside the flap, and fished out a flat dispenser of microtapes, which it held out for inspection.
Dead ahead were two urinals, with a sink and a wall-mounted paper-towel dispenser.
Peez leaned back in her butter-soft leather desk chair with built-in footrest, CD player, aromatherapy dispenser, heating and massage capabilities, and wished she were dead.
There were only surgical gowns and a few IV bags, a sink and a paper towel dispenser.
He cried aloud to his comrades looking towards Ascalaphus, Aphareus, Deipyrus, Meriones, and Antilochus, all of them brave soldiers "Hither my friends," he cried, "and leave me not single-handed I go in great fear by fleet Aeneas, who is coming against me, and is a redoubtable dispenser of death battle.
He cried aloud to his comrades looking towards Ascalaphus, Aphareus, Deipyrus, Meriones, and Antilochus, all of them brave soldiers- "Hither my friends," he cried, "and leave me not single-handed- I go in great fear by fleet Aeneas, who is coming against me, and is a redoubtable dispenser of death battle.
Does not work in some newer stamp dispensers, and some mechanical cancerette machines.