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Arranged vs Disposed - What's the difference?

arranged | disposed |

As verbs the difference between arranged and disposed

is that arranged is past tense of arrange while disposed is past tense of dispose.

As an adjective disposed is

inclined; minded.

arranged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (arrange)

  • arrange

    English

    Verb

    (arrang)
  • To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To put in order, to organize.
  • To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
  • (label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * arrangement

    disposed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispose)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined; minded.
  • *(Bible), (w) xviii.27:
  • *:when he was disposed to pass into Achaia
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • (lb) Inclined to mirth; jolly.
  • :(Beaumont and Fletcher)