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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
S. J. Perelman

Meaning of "dispose" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DISPOSE

From Old French disposer, from Latin dispōnere to set in different places, arrange, from dis-1 + pōnere to place.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DISPOSE

dispose  [dɪˈspəʊz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISPOSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dispose is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dispose in English.

WHAT DOES DISPOSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dispose pattern

In computer programming, the dispose pattern is a design pattern which is used to handle resource cleanup and prevent resource leaks in runtime environments that use automatic garbage collection. The fundamental problem that the dispose pattern aims to solve is that, because objects in a garbage-collected environment have finalizers rather than destructors, there is no guarantee that an object will be destroyed at any deterministic point in time. The dispose pattern works around this by giving an object a method which frees any resources the object is holding onto. Many garbage-collected languages offer language constructs to avoid having to call the dispose method explicitly in many situations. These language constructs leads to results similar to what is obtained with the Resource Acquisition Is Initialization idiom in languages with deterministic memory management.

Definition of dispose in the English dictionary

The first definition of dispose in the dictionary is foll by of to deal with or settle. Other definition of dispose is to deal with or settle. Dispose is also to give, sell, or transfer to another.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DISPOSE

PRESENT

Present
I dispose
you dispose
he/she/it disposes
we dispose
you dispose
they dispose
Present continuous
I am disposing
you are disposing
he/she/it is disposing
we are disposing
you are disposing
they are disposing
Present perfect
I have disposed
you have disposed
he/she/it has disposed
we have disposed
you have disposed
they have disposed
Present perfect continuous
I have been disposing
you have been disposing
he/she/it has been disposing
we have been disposing
you have been disposing
they have been disposing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I disposed
you disposed
he/she/it disposed
we disposed
you disposed
they disposed
Past continuous
I was disposing
you were disposing
he/she/it was disposing
we were disposing
you were disposing
they were disposing
Past perfect
I had disposed
you had disposed
he/she/it had disposed
we had disposed
you had disposed
they had disposed
Past perfect continuous
I had been disposing
you had been disposing
he/she/it had been disposing
we had been disposing
you had been disposing
they had been disposing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dispose
you will dispose
he/she/it will dispose
we will dispose
you will dispose
they will dispose
Future continuous
I will be disposing
you will be disposing
he/she/it will be disposing
we will be disposing
you will be disposing
they will be disposing
Future perfect
I will have disposed
you will have disposed
he/she/it will have disposed
we will have disposed
you will have disposed
they will have disposed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been disposing
you will have been disposing
he/she/it will have been disposing
we will have been disposing
you will have been disposing
they will have been disposing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dispose
you would dispose
he/she/it would dispose
we would dispose
you would dispose
they would dispose
Conditional continuous
I would be disposing
you would be disposing
he/she/it would be disposing
we would be disposing
you would be disposing
they would be disposing
Conditional perfect
I would have dispose
you would have dispose
he/she/it would have dispose
we would have dispose
you would have dispose
they would have dispose
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been disposing
you would have been disposing
he/she/it would have been disposing
we would have been disposing
you would have been disposing
they would have been disposing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dispose
we let´s dispose
you dispose
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dispose
Past participle
disposed
Present Participle
disposing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISPOSE


appose
əˈpəʊz
compose
kəmˈpəʊz
decompose
ˌdiːkəmˈpəʊz
depose
dɪˈpəʊz
expose
ɪkˈspəʊz
impose
ɪmˈpəʊz
indispose
ˌɪndɪˈspəʊz
oppose
əˈpəʊz
pose
pəʊz
predispose
ˌpriːdɪˈspəʊz
preexpose
ˌpriːɪkˈspəʊz
propose
prəˈpəʊz
recompose
ˌriːkəmˈpəʊz
redispose
ˌriːdɪˈspəʊz
reexpose
ˌriːɪkˈspəʊz
repose
rɪˈpəʊz
superpose
ˌsuːpəˈpəʊz
suppose
səˈpəʊz
transpose
trænsˈpəʊz
underexpose
ˌʌndərɪkˈspəʊz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISPOSE

disposability
disposable
disposable goods
disposable income
disposable soma theory
disposableness
disposables
disposal
disposal unit
disposed
disposedly
disposer
disposingly
disposings
disposition
dispositional
dispositive
dispositively
dispositor
dispossess

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISPOSE

adipose
all-purpose
angle of repose
circumpose
cross-purpose
discompose
dual-purpose
general-purpose
interpose
juxtapose
multipurpose
on purpose
overexpose
photocompose
prepose
presuppose
purpose
reimpose
reoppose
repurpose

Synonyms and antonyms of dispose in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISPOSE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dispose» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dispose
actuate · adapt · arrange · array · bias · condition · distribute · fix · group · incline · induce · influence · lead · motivate · move · order · place · predispose · prompt · put · range · rank · set · settle · stand · tempt

Translation of «dispose» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISPOSE

Find out the translation of dispose to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dispose from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dispose» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

处置
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disponer
570 millions of speakers

English

dispose
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निपटान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التخلص
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

распоряжаться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dispor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মীমাংসা করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

disposer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Buang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entsorgen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

処分する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

폐기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbuwang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xử lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அகற்றுவதில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विल्हेवाट लावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elden çıkarmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disporre
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wrzucać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розпоряджатися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dispune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαθέσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gooi
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förfoga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avhende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dispose

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPOSE»

The term «dispose» is very widely used and occupies the 13.325 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPOSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dispose» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dispose» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dispose

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10 QUOTES WITH «DISPOSE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dispose.
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Alcuin
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
3
Henry Charles Carey
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
4
Jeremy Collier
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
5
Oliver Cromwell
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
6
David Eisenhower
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
7
Warren Giles
A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
8
Robert Greene
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
9
Denis Kearney
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
10
S. J. Perelman
I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPOSE»

Discover the use of dispose in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dispose and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Waste Analysis at Facilities That Generate, Treat, Store, ...
A detailed, easy to understand reference to help anyone through the classification and disposal of hazardous waste.
DIANE Publishing Company, 1996
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Defense inventory approach for deciding whether to retain or ...
... establish milestones for reviewing current and recently used approaches for making decisions on whether to hold or dispose of economic retention inventory to identify actions needed to develop and implement appropriate approaches to ...
3
Pro .NET 2.0 Graphics Programming
APPENDIX. C. Using. the. Dispose. Method. with. Classes. That. Implement. IDisposable. some classes in the .NET Framework use Windows resources. In the context ofWindows programming, the term resource refers to a special kind ...
Eric White, 2005
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An English and Welsh Dictionary: Wherein Not Only the Words, ...
To dispose, [adapt, fit, or form for any purpose] Cymmhwyso, addasn, cyfaddasu, par- ottoi, agweddn at, gwneuthur yn addas ¡, llnnio i, &c. To dispose [influence the mind] Tueddu, hr. blygu, gogwyddo, f nawseiddio. To dispose of, [bestow, ...
John Walters, 1828
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NET Gotchas: 75 Ways to Improve Your C# and VB.NET Programs
SuppressFinalize() in Dispose( ). • There is no guarantee when the Finalize() method will be called, so you may hold resources much longer than you intend. For these reasons, it is better to use Dispose( ) instead of relying on Finalize( ).
Venkat Subramaniam, 2005
6
An English and Welsh Dictionary, Wherein, Not Only the ...
To dispose, r. a. [set in order, regulate, adjust, *ic] Tret nu, gosod mewn trefn (yn rhestr,) dospartliu, llunif.ethii, cyäeu,'cymnioni,gos- od, Jobxxxiv. 13.— Ilywio, llywodraethu. To dispose, [adapt, fit, or form for any purpose] Cymuihwyso, addasu, ...
John Walters, Hannah Walters, 1828
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The Stars Dispose
The story of Tomasso de Befanini, son of the astrologer to the Medicis, whose quest to become Catherine de Medici's master chef is interrupted by war, intrigue, and magic, includes a glossary and recipes for several of the dishes involved.
Michaela Roessner, 1998
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NET Enterprise Design with Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000
It's not a must, but in my opinion, for the current version recommended that you use Dispose () when you are done with an object of a serviced component. This same recommendation applies to all scarce resources. I think this is ironic when ...
Jimmy Nilsson, 2002
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C#Builder Kick Start
ReadLine() ; The UnmanagedResourceHolder class in Listing 4.9 implements the Dispose pattern. All methods of this class lead to the protected virtual Dispose method with the disposing parameter, which is where the actual code cleanup ...
Joseph Mayo, 2004
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Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
Bark ( ) '*** call Dispose on object when done spot .Dispose ( ) As shown in the preceding code, a call to Dispose allows an object to execute its cleanup code in a timely and predictable manner. Keep in mind that a disposable object puts ...
Ted Pattison, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISPOSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dispose is used in the context of the following news items.
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Proper ways to dispose of fireworks
NEWPORT – Used fireworks can leave debris behind and the state fire marshal has released the proper ways to dispose of fireworks after the holiday weekend. «The Miner Online, Jul 15»
2
Public Service Props To Dispose Huttenstrasse Care Home Property …
L), a specialist European real estate investment and financing company, announced Thursday that it has exchanged contracts to dispose of its ... «RTT News, Jul 15»
3
City of Kamloops Reminding Residents to Properly Dispose of …
The City of Kamloops is reminding residents to properly dispose of their cigarette butts after a structural fire last Saturday. Kamloops Fire and ... «KamloopsBCNow, Jul 15»
4
Govt mulling spl tribunal to dispose of Khaleda's cases: PM
Government mulling special tribunal for quick disposal of cases against Khaleda for her instructions of arson attacks during the anti-government ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
5
City of Pierre drop sites for June storm debris now closed
Property owners need to dispose of the remaining detritus properly and trim or remove damaged trees that are in the boulevard. The city baler ... «KSFY, Jul 15»
6
Get Healthy Carson City: Use, dispose of lawn and garden …
When possible, purchase only the amount of insecticide or herbicide you need for the job to avoid having to store or dispose of excess ... «Nevada Appeal, Jul 15»
7
Alabaster residents can dispose of prescription drugs any time at …
If you need a place to safely get rid of prescription drugs the Alabaster Police Department now has a collection unit available in their lobby any ... «FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com, Jul 15»
8
Barcel Mills helps dispose of chickens
Barton “B.J.” Barcel said when the Nebraska Department of Agriculture began responding to the avian influenza in Dixon County, officials knew ... «Midwest Producer, Jul 15»
9
Dispose of fats and grease properly
You have just finished frying up some chicken for dinner and now you're left with a pot filled with fats oils and grease. What do you do with it? «KUAM.com, Jul 15»
10
Greater Jakarta: City, police dispose of bootleg
The city administration and the Jakarta Police disposed of 11,321 bottles of bootleg liquor on Tuesday at the National Monument (Monas) area ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»

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