DISPENSING

Definition: DISPENSING

DISPENSING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Dispense

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DISPENSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: DISPENSING

Synonym by domain: dispensaries (medicine).

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Crosswords: DISPENSING

English words defined with "DISPENSING": apothecary ♦ chemist ♦ dispensation, dispense with, druggist ♦ foreswear, forgo ♦ Non obstante ♦ pharmaceutics, pharmacist, pharmacy, pill pusher, pill roller ♦ relinquish ♦ soda fountain ♦ tank engine ♦ waive, water cooler. (references)

Specialty definitions using "DISPENSING": AUTOMAT-CAR ATTENDANT, AUTOMATED CUTTING MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ bench hand, machine ♦ compressor-house operator ♦ dispensing container, dough sheeter, Drug and Narcotic Control ♦ Education, Pharmacy, engineer, booster and exhauster, engineer, gas-pumping station ♦ Food Dispensers, Automatic, FUEL-SYSTEM-MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR ♦ GAS-PUMPING-STATION OPERATOR, gas-substation operator ♦ KILN OPERATOR, MALT HOUSE ♦ laying off, Legislation, Drug ♦ manager, vending department, Medication Errors ♦ o by dispensing cash to the student for which the school obtains a signed receipt from the student, OPTICIAN APPRENTICE, DISPENSING ♦ SUPERVISOR, COOLER SERVICE, SWEET-GOODS-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Technology, Pharmaceutical, TICKET-DISPENSER CHANGER. (references)

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Modern Usage: DISPENSING

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well it's somebody who doesn't believe there's a divine being dispensing justice to mankind. ('Breaker' Morant; writing credit: Kenneth Ross; Jonathan Hardy)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DISPENSING

Domain	Title
References	ABC Dispensing Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) The World Market for Pumps for Dispensing Fuel or Lubricants Used in Filling Stations or Garages and Fitted or Designed to Be Fitted with a Measuring Device: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Dispensing of Medication (reference) Dispensing Pediatric Eyewear (reference) Dispensing With the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen (reference) Manual of Spanish Optical Dispensing Phrases and Lab Terminology (reference) Ophthalmic Dispensing (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Md Dispensing - Cd-rom (reference) (more periodical examples)

Consumer Goods	Zojirushi CD-DEC30 Deluxe 3.18-Quart Micom Electric Dispensing Pot (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: DISPENSING

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Photo Album: DISPENSING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Almeda Mine, Medford District, Aquafix. Machine dispensing lime. Credit: John Craig.		[Dominican nun dispensing medicine]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Aseptic dispensing of carbohydrate broth. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: DISPENSING

Author	Quotation
Plato	Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
	Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DISPENSING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The Sick Funds are responsible for monitoring and controlling the issuing and dispensing of prescriptions. (references)
		The major pharmaceuticals distributors are the buying groups, dispensing doctors, pharmacists with wholesale licenses and wholesalers. (references)
		This annual growth is expected to be boosted by a new policy (implemented in August 2000) which separates the responsibilities of prescribing and dispensing drugs between doctors and pharmacists. (references)
Economic History	Canada	Canada provides free drugs to anyone over the age of 65, although in some provinces they have to pay a dispensing fee. (references)
	Korea	Among the major initiatives that have made a significant impact on the research-based drug market in 2000 are the Separation of Prescribing and Dispensing, Actual Transaction Pricing (ATP) initiative and the new A-7 policy of pricing local, innovative drugs at the level of advanced countries. (references)
Human Rights	Ghana	Of the cases received during the year, 1,022 (11 percent) involved complaints about human rights, and 2,208 (23.8 percent) involved administrative justice, including abuse of office by officials, labor disputes, and delays in dispensing justice. (references)
Political Economy	Indonesia	Enforcement of the law against criminal violence deteriorated, resulting in religious groups purporting to uphold public morality, and mobs dispensing "street justice" operating with impunity. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: DISPENSING

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Another improvement would be effected by dispensing altogether with the Navy Board as now constituted, and substituting in its stead bureau similar to those already existing in the War Department.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: DISPENSING

"DISPENSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.58% of the time. "DISPENSING" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	83.58%	112	30,646
Adjective (general or positive)	8.96%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	6.72%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	0.75%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	134	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: DISPENSING

Country	Name
USA	ABC Dispensing Technologies, Inc.
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: DISPENSING

Expressions using "DISPENSING": automatic cash dispensing machine ♦ dispensing chemist ♦ dispensing container. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "DISPENSING": cash-dispensing, condom-dispensing, drinks-dispensing, karate-dispensing, snack-dispensing, tea-dispensing, water-dispensing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DISPENSING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
dispensing pump	31	beer dispensing system tap	7
dispensing system	28	dispensing optical	7
adhesive dispensing	24	dispensing machine	6
dispensing equipment	20	medication dispensing	6
adhesive dispensing equipment	18	dispensing paint	6
academy audiologists dispensing	13	dispensing industrial system	6
beer dispensing	12	dispensing syringe	6
dispensing ink	12	beer dispensing equipment	6
precision dispensing	11	dispensing closure	6
dispensing	11	dispensing valve	5
fluid dispensing	9	dispensing filling	5
dispensing fluid system	9	dispensing professional system	5
beverage beverage dispenser dispenser dispensing drink equipment fountain	9	adhesive dispensing system	5
dispensing needle	8	dispensing liquor	5
dispensing mechanism	8	water dispensing	5
dispensing false halos	8	dispensing system washroom	5
beverage dispensing	8	fuel dispensing	5
epoxy dispensing	8	beverage dispensing equipment	4
dispensing system tape	7	dispensing hygiene office system	4
barcelona bebidas cafe dispensing maquinas servicio vending	7	mobile dispensing	4
robot dispensing	7	dispensing powder	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DISPENSING

Language		Translations for "DISPENSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		分与 (Dispense, Dispensed). (various references)

Czech		lékárník (dispenser, dispensing chemist, druggist, pharmacist), farmaceut (dispensing chemist, druggist, pharmacist). (various references)

Danish		udskaenkning, medicinudlevering (dispensary). (various references)

Dutch		tappen (dispose of, release, sell, vend). (various references)

Esperanto		farmaciisto (chemist, dispensing chemist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmacist). (various references)

Finnish		jakelu (dealing out, delivery, distribution), anniskelu (sale of intoxicants). (various references)

French		délivrance des médicaments (dispensary), débit (discharge). (various references)

German		dispensierend, austeilend. (various references)

Greek		πώληση (sale, selling, vendition). (various references)

Hungarian		szétosztás (allocation, apportionment, break up, decentralization, dispensation, disposition, distribution), elkészítés (completion, making, preparation). (various references)

Italian		mescita (barroom), consegna (check out, consignation, consignment, delivery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		点着 (dispensing a drop or spot of something, spot application). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		て�"ちゃく (dispensing a drop or spot of something, spot application). (various references)

Pig Latin		ispensingday

Portuguese		débito (debit, debt, score), tiragem (circulation, clearing, drawing, editor, impression). (various references)

Spanish		dispensario (dispensary, dispensatory), despacho de cerveza. (various references)

Swedish		utskänkning. (various references)

Turkish		ilaç hazırlayan kimyager (dispensing chemist), eczacı (apothecary, chemist, dispenser, dispensing chemist, druggist, pharmaceutist, pharmacist). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DISPENSING

Misspellings
	"DISPENSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dispension. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DISPENSING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "DISPENSING" (pronounced di'spe"nsing)
7	-s p e" n s i ng	expensing.
5	-e" n s i ng	commencing, condensing, fencing, lensing, mensing, sensing.
4	-n s i ng	advancing, announcing, balancing, bouncing, conferencing, convincing, dancing, denouncing, distancing, enhancing, experiencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, influencing, Lancing, licensing, mincing, outdistancing, pouncing, prancing, pronouncing, rebalancing, referencing, refinancing, renouncing, rinsing, romancing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, trouncing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DISPENSING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: despising, dinginess.
	-2 letters: indigens, sidespin, spending, spinnies.
	-3 letters: designs, dingies, dissing, endings, ensigns, gipsied, gipsies, indigen, insides, insigne, peining, peising, pending, pidgins, pinnies, pissing, seining, seising, sending, sensing, sidings, sniping.
	-4 letters: deigns, design, dieing, diesis, dinges, dining, ending, ensign, genips, ginned, gneiss, indies, indign, inside, niding, niseis, pennis, pidgin, pieing, pinged, pining, pinned, pissed.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-s-s"
	+1 letter: misspending.
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