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佈置,安排;使傾向于,使有意於;處理,處置處理,處置
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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}.
(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.
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.
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 \Dis*pose"\, v. i.
To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
She had disposed with C[ae]sar. --Shak.
Dispose \Dis*pose"\, n.
1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
[Obs.]
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
dispose
v 1: 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}]