different between dispensary vs dispensable

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?p?ns??i/
• Rhymes: -?ns??i

Noun

dispensary (plural dispensaries)

1. A place or room where something is dispensed.
   1. An office or a vehicle specifically designed for the dispensing of drugs, a pharmacy, in an organization (i.e. a hospital, school or industrial plant).
      • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 120:

        He watched for a while, pacing the small, slippery cobbles, then made for the deep shade of a stone porch on the other side of the square, where a sheet with a red cross on it had been draped around a pillar. A two-wheeled field dispensary with no driver stood outside the building.

      Synonym: hospital pharmacy

   2. An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.
   3. A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.

Translations

English

Etymology

dispense +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?p?ns?b?l/, [d?s?p??ns?b??], [-b??]

Adjective

dispensable (comparative more dispensable, superlative most dispensable)

1. Able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced.
2. 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, 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.

3. (of a law, rule, vow, etc.) Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
4. (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, page 161:

     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.

Antonyms

• indispensable

Related terms

• dispensary
• dispense

Translations

Further reading

• dispensable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dispensable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dispensable at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• piebaldness

French

Adjective

dispensable (plural dispensables)

1. dispensable