Vai al contenuto
OneKitly

dispense

verbosostantivoattestato nei dialoghi

  • Canada//dɪˈspɛns//
  • Australia//dɪˈspens//

To issue, distribute, or give out.

verbo

  1. 1

    To issue, distribute, or give out.

    He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.

    The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.

  2. 2

    To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

    to dispense justice

    While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.

  3. 3

    To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

    The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.

    An optician can dispense spectacles.

  4. 4

    To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

    After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].

    1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.

    It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.

    Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.

  5. 5

    obsoletoTo compensate; to make up; to make amends.

    One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence

    His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

Etimologia

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

sostantivo

  1. 1

    obsoletoCost, expenditure.

  2. 2

    obsoletoThe act of dispensing, dispensation.

    […] what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence […]

Forme

plurale
dispenses
passato
dispensed
participio passato
dispensed
participio presente
dispensing
3ª persona singolare
dispenses
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

Posizione tra le parole del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — sottotitoli di film e serie, quindi lingua parlata e non scritta (CC BY-SA 3.0).