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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dispose
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dispose of waste
▪ environmentally friendly ways to dispose of waste
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
favourably
▪ The majority were favourably disposed, some were ambivalent and a few highly critical of the messages and their style.
▪ I think maybe she had seen the television programmes and was favourably disposed.
▪ It is expected that he will be favourably disposed towards the report's proposals.
kindly
▪ He had always been kindly disposed towards his stepdaughter.
▪ He seemed kindly disposed, yet glum, and held himself somewhat aloof.
▪ The best that can be hoped for, on their behalf, is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them.
well
▪ He was very well disposed towards his student passengers.
▪ Charles I was equally well disposed towards Salisbury and made him a privy councillor in 1626.
▪ Jackson was well disposed towards journalists of left-wing sympathies.
▪ However, it is a commonplace observation that capitalism is not well disposed towards standardisation.
■ NOUN
asset
▪ It falls only on those who do not dispose of their assets seven years or more before their death.
▪ He was looking for smallish, easy to dispose of assets, stuff to chip away at.
body
▪ Christie would dispose of Beryl's body and have the baby Geraldine adopted.
▪ Anyway, the people who disposed of her body mopped up some blood, and squeezed it out on to the garments.
case
▪ They, and they alone, have the right to dispose of a case involving a child.
▪ The four dissenting justices wanted to dispose of the case without considering the constitutional question.
loan
▪ The government has already proposed using 685 billion yen in taxpayers' money to help dispose of the loans.
money
▪ The government has already proposed using 685 billion yen in taxpayers' money to help dispose of the loans.
property
▪ Even the primary right of freedom to dispose of the property as the owner wishes is not absolute.
▪ Personal property managers acquire, distribute, and store supplies, and may sell or dispose of surplus property.
▪ X disposes of property by way of gift to Y in 1993.
▪ In addition he can apply to the court for an order empowering him to dispose of property subject to a prior charge.
▪ I am not allowed to dispose of my property or live in it.
waste
▪ This has been seriously assessed as a way of disposing of nuclear waste, but not toxic waste.
▪ The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-level radioactive waste.
▪ After recycling, we must find the safest way in which to dispose of the waste.
▪ Unable to dispose of the poisonous waste, the yeasts shut down and become dormant.
▪ Other provisions to provide incentives for states to dispose of the waste remained intact.
▪ Where toilet facilities are not available, dispose of human waste in a sanitary manner.
way
▪ In short, Sangenic is the most modern, most environmentally friendly and most economic way to dispose of disposable nappies!
▪ Specifically, the way ill which households disposed of their total personal income in 1988 is shown in Table 7-2.
▪ The only way to dispose of these rabbits is while they are out on their feeding grounds.
▪ When he went back to Proetus, the latter had to think out other ways of disposing of him.
▪ This has been seriously assessed as a way of disposing of nuclear waste, but not toxic waste.
▪ The best way to dispose of so much water is to pour it into the city sewer.
▪ After recycling, we must find the safest way in which to dispose of the waste.
■ VERB
acquire
▪ But, it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities.
▪ At all periods there must have been recognised places in a locality where goods could have been acquired or disposed of.
help
▪ Each time she helped her son dispose of a poached salmon she felt good.
▪ The government has already proposed using 685 billion yen in taxpayers' money to help dispose of the loans.
▪ The United States has decided to make a bold step toward helping to secure and dispose of this material permanently.
sell
▪ Personal property managers acquire, distribute, and store supplies, and may sell or dispose of surplus property.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Man proposes, God disposes
be disposed to sth
▪ Already the local people were disposed to make over various small sums for the use of the Schoolmaster.
▪ He is disposed to criminality, drugs, and violence.
▪ Lord Beresford was disposed to chat about the forthcoming cricket season, but was briskly recalled to his duties.
▪ No one except me, and least of all the President, was disposed to interfere with that.
▪ Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality.
▪ The cots were disposed to form a long seat along one side of the coach, the remaining floor space being clear.
▪ The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the price of labour.
▪ We know that most children are disposed to comply.
be well/favourably/kindly disposed (to/towards sb/sth)
▪ He said Bonn was favourably disposed to such a conference if it were well prepared.
▪ I think maybe she had seen the television programmes and was favourably disposed.
▪ It is expected that he will be favourably disposed towards the report's proposals.
▪ Jackson was well disposed towards journalists of left-wing sympathies.
▪ The best that can be hoped for, on their behalf, is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them.
▪ The majority were favourably disposed, some were ambivalent and a few highly critical of the messages and their style.
be/feel/seem etc disposed to do sth
▪ Congress has had a torrent of learned advice on this amendment, none of which it seems disposed to listen to.
▪ Ernest Conway had never felt disposed to adopt a conventional, benign, grandfatherly role.
▪ Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep.
▪ Headteachers say governors come to school on special occasions but don't seem disposed to become involved more routinely in school affairs.
▪ James didn't seem disposed to take the hint.
▪ Seb's father was a large, comfortable-looking man who did not seem disposed to make a fuss.
▪ The brothers exchanged glances, neither saying a word, though they seemed disposed to.
▪ The very houses seemed disposed to pack up and take trips.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid inhaling sawdust of pressure-treated wood, and do not burn any scraps; dispose of both in the trash.
▪ Each bird disposed itself on the sea like a great white flower.
▪ It's especially useful in lofts or cellars, and will also dispose of bath and/or shower waste through the same pipes.
▪ McLaws' troops were disposed as on the previous day, with orders to hold the enemy in front....
▪ Over a few years he disposed of about £40,000.
▪ Personal property managers acquire, distribute, and store supplies, and may sell or dispose of surplus property.
▪ Sin could be repented of by an act of volition; failure could not be disposed of so easily.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispose

Dispose \Dis*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disposing.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See Pose.]

  1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

    Who hath disposed the whole world?
    --Job xxxiv. 13.

    All ranged in order and disposed with grace.
    --Pope.

    The rest themselves in troops did else dispose.
    --Spenser.

  2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

    The knightly forms of combat to dispose.
    --Dryden.

  3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.

    Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor.
    --Evelyn.

  4. 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. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. --Dryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. --Bacon. To dispose of.

    1. To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use.

      Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons.
      --Locke.

    2. 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.

      More water . . . than can be disposed of.
      --T. Burnet.

      I have disposed of her to a man of business.
      --Tatler.

      A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.
      --Waller.

      Syn: To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.

Dispose

Dispose \Dis*pose"\, n.

  1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

    But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires.
    --Speed.

  2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.]

    He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected.
    --Shak.

Dispose

Dispose \Dis*pose"\, v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]

She had disposed with C[ae]sar.
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dispose

late 14c., from Old French disposer (13c.) "arrange, order, control, regulate" (influenced in form by poser "to place"), from Latin disponere "put in order, arrange, distribute," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). Related: Disposed; disposing.

Wiktionary
dispose

vb. 1 (lb en intransitive used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something. 2 To distribute and put in place. 3 To deal out; to assign to a use. 4 To incline. 5 (lb en obsolete) To bargain; to make terms. 6 (lb en obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

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WordNet
dispose

  1. v. give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions"

  2. throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away]

  3. make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them" [syn: incline] [ant: indispose]

  4. make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: qualify] [ant: disqualify]

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Usage examples of "dispose".

Howard was disposed to protest, to offer morehe was most urgently in earnest, he protested that he could not wait, was ravished by desire, a great deal too warm to abide delay .

President, were disposed to take refuge in the Cave of Adullam, where from chagrin and sheer vexation the Vice-President had too frequently been found.

There can be little doubt that the Goths who were minded to revolt from the son of Triarius and who were not to be received into favour by the Emperor, were Ostrogoths, still dimly conscious of the old tie which bound them to the glorious house of Amala, and more than half disposed to forsake the service of their squinting upstart chief in order to follow the banners of the young hero, son of Theudemir.

God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, the mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims and seraphims, and of the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy innocents who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song, of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, and together with all the holy and elect of God: we excommunicate and anathematise him or them, malefactor or malefactors, and from the threshold of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester them, that he or they may be tormented, disposed and delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, with those who say to the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire not Thy ways.

My Angela listened willingly, but little disposed to talk herself, she seldom answered, and she displayed good sense rather than wit.

We breakfasted together, and having asked him as we were at table for what profession he felt an inclination, he answered that he was disposed to do anything to earn an honourable living.

She answered that, being perfectly disposed to submit to his will, she would gladly obey him.

Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to look distrustfully upon any sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Divine Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize.

I had determined to take the last, bold stride in my campaign of suitable working attire for archaeologically disposed ladies.

Erwig poured two tots of arrak, one of which he placed before Cugel, then disposed himself for conversation.

The movement toward religious syncretism of which Bahaism is just now the expression will not be so easy to dispose of.

He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy rather alarming to gentlemen of weak nerves and particular habits.

Since he was riding a battleship, he disposed his forces so that the battleships could have a glorious time sinking-cripples, and he went Steaming north with the lot of them.

Of the origin of this sign, Blackstrap gave us a very humorous anecdote: the house was formerly, it would appear, known by the sign of the Crown and Thistle, and was at that time the resort of the Irish Traders who visited Bath to dispose of their linens.

She had, thankfully, disposed of the black bombazine and wore a soft gray gown cinched tightly at the waist and buttoned up to a neckline that dipped well below her shoulders.