different between locate vs dispose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loc?tus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???ke?t/, /l??ke?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?ke?t/, /lo??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: lo?cate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
   • 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek

     The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
   • 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy

     That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• co-locate

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Alecto, acetol, coleta

Italian

Verb

locate

1. second-person plural present indicative of locare
2. second-person plural imperative of locare
3. feminine plural of locato

Anagrams

• celato
• colate
• cotale

Latin

Participle

loc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of loc?tus

English

Etymology

From French disposer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?po?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??sp??z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

dispose (third-person singular simple present disposes, present participle disposing, simple past and past participle disposed)

1. (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.

2. To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III

     Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 6

     Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.

   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 47:

     I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in […] .

3. To deal out; to assign to a use.
   • 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634

     what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor

4. To incline.

   (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)

   • Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Suspicion

     They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

   • At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.

5. (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
6. (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

   • the knightly forms of combat to dispose

Synonyms

• incline
• discard

Antonyms

• indispose
• disincline

Derived terms

• disposition
• disposal
• dispose of

Translations

Noun

dispose

1. (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
2. (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.

French

Verb

dispose

1. first-person singular present indicative of disposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of disposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
5. second-person singular imperative of disposer

Italian

Verb

dispose

1. third-person singular past historic of disporre

Anagrams

• dispeso