What's the difference between dispense and waive?

Dispense


Definition:

  • (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.

Waive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A waif; a castaway.
  • (v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  • (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
  • (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
  • (v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
  • (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
  • (v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
  • (2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (3) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
  • (4) Under Spanish law, anyone who has more than €120,000 in undeclared income automatically faces a jail sentence, but this is generally waived if the offender agrees to pay.
  • (5) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
  • (6) It directs agencies to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” other penalties, fees, taxes and costs.
  • (7) The business secretary will instead back a voluntary scheme in which employers and staff can sign settlement agreements that would allow an employee to leave a company with a good reference providing they waived their right to pursue unfair dismissal proceedings at a tribunal.
  • (8) Lavery has waived his right to make an argument in court.
  • (9) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
  • (10) 2010 February: Waives £1.6m bonus after coming under pressure from ministers over his pay.
  • (11) Those who should never have been given loans and have fallen more than 30 days behind with repayments will have their debts wiped entirely, while a further 45,000 who are up to 30 days in arrears will have their interest and charges waived.
  • (12) Each day, he waived his right to a lawyer and his right to remain silent every day in writing, the affidavit states.
  • (13) Past fines ranged from €35,000-€50,000, against which organisers successfully appealed and had reduced or waived.
  • (14) The decision to waive the preferential treatment for the bailout fund on the Spanish rescue was a one-off that would not be repeated in any further programmes, Merkel said.
  • (15) They were, therefore, never “in law” and so could not be “oulawed”, hence they were “waived” instead.
  • (16) US telecommunications companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile are waiving the cost of texts offering donations.
  • (17) The assistant commissioner told MPs colleagues had written to the NYT again to urge them to waive that privilege because of the "quite exceptional circumstances" surrounding the case, but admitted he was "not hopeful".
  • (18) The EU agreed in September to waive tariffs on Pakistani textiles, but only temporarily.
  • (19) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
  • (20) It has waived the administration fee for the duplicate ticket and sent you £50 in travel vouchers.