Dispose vs Regulate - What's the difference?
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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
To dictate policy.
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
* Macaulay
* Bancroft
To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
To put or maintain in order.
Dispose is a related term of regulate.
As verbs the difference between dispose and regulate
is that dispose is while regulate is to dictate policy.As an adjective dispose
is organized, placed in a certain fashion, arranged.dispose
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(wikipedia dispose)Verb
(dispos)Synonyms
* incline * discardAntonyms
* indispose * disinclineDerived terms
* disposition * disposal * dispose ofregulate
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Verb
(regulat)- the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons
- The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
- to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
- to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
- to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
- to regulate one's eating habits
