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manage
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from mano, from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mæn?d?/
- (US)
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?mæn?d?/
- (no weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?mæn?d?/
- Rhymes: -æn?d?
- Hyphenation: man?age
Verb
manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)
- (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
- (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
- (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
- (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (To handle with skill, wield): bewield
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
manage (uncountable)
- (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- (horseriding) Manège.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
- You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
See also
- man
- Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- manage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- manage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Meagan, agname
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dispense
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispensare (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?p?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Hyphenation: dis?pense
Verb
dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)
- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- to dispense justice
- 1662, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- 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.
- 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
- (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed
Derived terms
- dispensary
- dispenser
- dispense with
Translations
Noun
dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)
- (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
- (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
Translations
Derived terms
- dispensable
- dispensation
- dispensative
- dispensatory
Related terms
- dispend
Further reading
- dispense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dispense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- dispense at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- despines, piedness
French
Etymology
Deverbal of dispenser.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
dispense f (plural dispenses)
- dispensation
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- third-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- second-person singular imperative of dispenser
Further reading
- “dispense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- pendisse
Italian
Noun
dispense f
- plural of dispensa
Verb
dispense
- third-person singular past historic of dispegnere
Anagrams
- pendessi
Portuguese
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- first-person singular imperative of dispensar
- third-person singular imperative of dispensar
Spanish
Verb
dispense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
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