Organism vs Dispensable - What's the difference?
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(biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
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, title= (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
Able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced.
Capable of being dispensed; distributable.
* 2006 , Pamela Lewis, Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Carers , Jessica Kingsley Publsihers (2006), ISBN 9781843108092,
Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
* 2011 , Will Adam, Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church: Dispensation and Economy in Ecclesiastical Law , ISBN 9781409420552,
(biochemistry, nutrition, of an amino acid) Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo.
* 2008 , Marie Dunford & J. Andrew Doyle, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise , Thomson Wadsworth (2008), ISBN 9780495014836,
As a noun organism
is (biology) a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.As an adjective dispensable is
able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced.organism
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(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
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* free-living organism * organismal * organismicAnagrams
* * English words suffixed with -ismdispensable
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(en adjective)page 132:
- The reward could be a preferred food, a sticker, blowing some bubbles, a noisemaker the child enjoys, a pat on the back, or some other easily dispensable reward that does not take the child away from the task at hand for more than a moment or two.
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- Jones' use of the term 'Ecclesiastical Law' in his definition of dispensations in Roman Catholic canon law points to the Roman Catholic distinction between divine law, from which no dispensation is possible, and merely ecclesiastical law, which is dispensable in certain circumstances.
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- The difference in absorption rate is not surprising since whey has a high percentage of indispensable amino acids, which are absorbed more rapidly than dispensable amino acids.