Disposable vs Onetime - What's the difference?
disposable | onetime |
Any object that is designed to be disposed of rather than refilled or repaired.
* 2010 , Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion (page 88)
That can be disposed of.
That is designed to be discarded rather than refilled or repaired.
Available to be used.
Former.
*1891: Howard Pyle, Men of Iron [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=535313780&tag=Pyle,+Howard:+Men+of+Iron,+1891&query=+onetime&id=PylMeno]
*:"Nay," said he, stoutly, "I be no Lord and I be no Prince, but I be as good as thou. For am I not the son of thy onetime very true comrade and thy kinsman...?
*2004: The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report/Chapter_4]
*:A onetime special...forces officer, he had worked with Albright when she was ambassador to the United Nations and had served on the NSC staff with Clarke.
For a single instance.
*1896: Freeman Otis Willey, The Laborer and the Capitalist [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0DepZl9HZ1Dsvoo-CTv&id=YM0N52WEH5kC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=onetime+date:0-1900&as_brr=1]
*:So far as manufacturers, traders, and lawyers use the savings banks, they are very generally of the poorer classes; and these probably own a great majority of the larger onetime deposits.
*2004: The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report/Chapter_6]
*:The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase)...
*2005: ICCSA 2005, Computational Science And Its Applications [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN3540258604&id=1rbSCdMHlG8C&pg=PA526&lpg=PA526&dq=%22onetime+password%22&sig=ZxNWC2yvwxZlpyN9ktpqC49G8tk]
*:One of the key characteristics of the proposed onetime password protocol is that attacker cannot use password because it changes every time.
As adjectives the difference between disposable and onetime
is that disposable is that can be disposed of while onetime is former.As a noun disposable
is any object that is designed to be disposed of rather than refilled or repaired.disposable
English
Noun
(en noun)- Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Rather than purchase an expensive razor he bought a packet of cheap disposable ones.