'Dispose' definitions:

Definition of 'dispose'

From: WordNet
verb
Give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions"
verb
Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away]
verb
Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them" [syn: dispose, incline] [ant: disincline, indispose]
verb
Place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed"
verb
Make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: qualify, dispose] [ant: disqualify, indispose, unfit]

Definition of 'Dispose'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Who hath disposed the whole world? --Job xxxiv. 13. [1913 Webster]
  • All ranged in order and disposed with grace. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. [1913 Webster]
  • The knightly forms of combat to dispose. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. [1913 Webster]
  • Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • To dispose of. (a) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. --Locke. (b) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • More water . . . than can be disposed of. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • I have disposed of her to a man of business. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
  • A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. --Waller.
  • Syn: To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dispose'

From: GCIDE
  • Dispose \Dis*pose"\, v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • She had disposed with C[ae]sar. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dispose'

From: GCIDE
  • Dispose \Dis*pose"\, n.
  • 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. --Speed. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'dispose'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Dispose'