| 单词 | dispense |
| 释义 | dispense (once / 220 pages) 1v 2v To dispense means to give out or distribute something. A school nurse can dispense students' medication and we all can dispense advice. The word dispense comes from the Old French word dispenser, meaning "give out." You can dispense anything from hand sanitizer to dating advice. When dispense is paired with with it means "get rid of it" or "skip." If you dispense with traditional Thanksgiving dishes, you might instead celebrate with pizza, pancakes, tacos — anything but turkey and all the fixings. WORD FAMILYdispense: dispensable, dispensary, dispensation, dispensed, dispenser, dispenses, dispensing+/dispensable: dispensability, dispensableness, indispensable/dispensary: dispensaries/dispensation: dispensations/dispenser: dispensers/indispensability: indispensabilities/indispensable: indispensability, indispensableness, indispensably USAGE EXAMPLESMistakes ranged from sloppy record-keeping to the dispensing of incorrect drugs. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) One law enacted Wednesday allows pharmacists to dispense, without a prescription, opioid antagonists. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) The demand is unlikely to revive any time soon as India struggles to dispense enough new notes, industry officials say. Reuters(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1v administer or bestow, as in small portions the machine dispenses soft drinks Syn|Hypo|Hyper administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out allot, assign, portion give out reallotallot again dealdistribute cards to the players in a game apply, givegive or convey physically allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve, set asidegive or assign a resource to a particular person or cause allocate, apportiondistribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose misdealdeal cards wrongly treadapply (the tread) to a tire administerperform (a church sacrament) ritually give transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody 2v give or apply (medications) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper administer transfuse give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to digitalizeadminister digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects inject, shootgive an injection to givegive (as medicine) infuseintroduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes immunise, immunize, inoculate, vaccinateperform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation care for, treat provide treatment for v grant a dispensation; grant an exemption I was dispensed from this terrible task Hyper exempt, free, relieve grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to |
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