Appropriate vs Dispose - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
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* (John Locke)
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
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(archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .
* 2012 , The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger,
(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
To eliminate or to get rid of something.
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To distribute and put in place.
*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , act 4, scene III
*:Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , chapter 6
*:Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
*1934 , (Rex Stout), edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 47:
*:I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in.
To deal out; to assign to a use.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
To incline.
: (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
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*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
(lb) To bargain; to make terms.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She had disposed with Caesar.
(lb) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:the knightly forms of combat to dispose
As adjectives the difference between appropriate and dispose
is that appropriate is (obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved while dispose is organized, placed in a certain fashion, arranged.As verbs the difference between appropriate and dispose
is that appropriate is (archaic) to make suitable; to suit while dispose is .appropriate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
- I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
- While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
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Synonyms
* (suited for) apt, felicitous, fitting, suitableAntonyms
* (all senses) inappropriateDerived terms
* appropriatenessVerb
(appropriat)- (William Paley)
Put armed police in every school, NRA urges
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- (Blackstone)