(v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
(v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
(v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
(v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
(v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
(v. i.) To give dispensation.
(v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
(n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
(4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
(7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
(8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
(9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
(10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
(11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
(12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
(13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
(14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
(15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
(16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
(17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
(18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
(19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
(20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
Gobble
Definition:
(v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
(v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
(v. i.) To eat greedily.
(v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
(n.) A noise made in the throat.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
(3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
(6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
(7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
(8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
(9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
(10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
(11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
(12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
(15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
(16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
(17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
(18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
(19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
(20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.