Dedicate

Definition: Dedicate

Dedicate

Verb

1. Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause".

2. Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building; "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and bursing homes".

3. Inscribe or address by way of compliment; "She dedicated her book to her parents".

4. Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Synonyms: Dedicate

Repute

Consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine, inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Crosswords: Dedicate

That I may dedicate each victory to her and call upon her in defeat, and if at last I give my life, I give it in the sacred name of Dulcinea (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

I'll dedicate all my love until you call baby yeah (I Wanna Be Down; performing artist: Brandy)

That's why I had to dedicate at least one rhyme (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J)

I dedicate this to all the pretty girls (Got Your Money; performing artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard)

Girl, I’d have to dedicate every line on every page (While You Loved Me; performing artist: Rascal Flatts)

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Books

• Dedicate and Celebrate! A Messianic Jewish Guide to Hanukkah (reference)

• I Dedicate Myself (reference)

• I Dedicate This Song to You (reference)

• Questioni di diritto patrimoniale della famiglia discusse da vari giuristi e dedicate ad Alberto Trabucchi (reference)

• Supplement to 802.5: Token Ring Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications: 100 Mbit/S Dedicate (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• I Dedicate Myself (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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NRCS District Conservationist Rhonda Holliday works with Cass County, Illinois private landowner. He decided to dedicate 27 acres of bottomland to the wild turkey population that call his farm home. Credit: Bob Nichols.

To dedicate the Truman Library, Kansas City, Mo. Leaving a downtown hotel here July 6th for the cornerstone laying of the new Truman Library in Independence, Mo., are, left to right, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, Harry S. Truman, Earl Warren, and Lyndon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Superman. "I will now dedicate Prehistoric Park...in my own way!". Credit: Library of Congress.

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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. (The Gettysburg Address)

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Health

We appreciate your efforts in increasing funding for NIH overall and the NINDS in particular, and we dedicate ourselves to the task of putting this money to the best possible use in helping patients with these diseases. (references)

Business

To achieve these ends, American firms dedicate a high proportion of their earnings to research and development. (references)

The private and public sectors in Italy dedicate a good portion of their budgets to protection against theft and acts of aggression, protection of personal computers and networks, prevention of work-related injury, and promotion of safety in the workplace. (references)

Although the USA as a destination was proposed in approximately 100 catalogs in 1999/2000, the Visit USA travel trade consists of about 30 tour operators, which dedicate 70-100 percent of their brochure catalog content to the North American market (U.S. and Canada). (references)

Economic History

Laos

POTENTIAL INVESTORS SHOULD NOTE THE NEED TO DEDICATE SUBSTANTIAL RESOURCES, BOTH HUMAN AND CAPITAL, TO TRAIN FUTURE EMPLOYEES. (references)

El Salvador

The large distributors have well-established networks of buyers, but handle such a wide range of products that they often cannot dedicate the time and resources necessary to promote a new or lesser-known product. (references)

Israel

Once U.S. meat packers indicate their willingness to dedicate one or more plants to production of kosher beef according to the specifications of Israel's rabbinate, a good market can b e developed for high qquality U.S. kosher beef. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

On August 18, the Ministry of Justice provided funds to enable 9 judges to dedicate their time exclusively to cases of disappearances and to allow another 51 judges to give preference to the investigation of such cases. (references)

Political Economy

Sao Tome and Principe

The Government and international donors continued to dedicate resources to improving soldiers' living conditions. (references)

NICARAGUA

Although unable to dedicate extensive resources to protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), Nicaragua is working to modernize its intellectual property rights regime. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dedicate": dedicate one's life to smth. ♦ dedicate oneself ♦ dedicate to. Additional references.

Ending with "dedicate": re-dedicate.

Afrikaans

spandeer (devote, pay, pay out, spend). (various references)

Albanian

dedikoj (consecrate), kushtoj (consecrate, cost, devote, inscribe, pay), hap solemnisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كرس (consecrate, devote, hallow, sanctify, set up), ‏هدى كتاب, ‏تفانى, ‏أهدى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

освещавам (bless, consecrate, hallow, inaugurate, sanctify), откривам тържествено, посвещавам (consecrate, devote, give, initiate, inscribe, vow). (various references)

Chinese 

致力 (Dedicating, Dedication, Devote, Devoting), 奉獻 (consecrate, devote). (various references)

Czech

dedikovat, vìnovat (devote, give, give up, pay, put in, spend). (various references)

Dutch

spenderen (devote, pay out, spend), spanderen (devote, pay out, spend), opdragen (celebrate, devote, entrust, tell). (various references)

Esperanto

dediĉi (devote). (various references)

Faeroese

ogna (devote), lata (allow, cause, deliver, devote, entrust, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, supply, tell). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشکش (Gift, Offer, Present), وقف کردن (Amortize, Avow, Bequeath, Devote, Endow), اهداکردن , اختصاص دادن (Allocate, Appropriate, Assign, Devote, Earmark, Reserve). (various references)

Finnish

vihkiä (confer the degree of upon, consecrate, inaugurate, join in marriage, marry, ordain), pyhittää (consecrate, sanctify), omistaa (have, have got, own, possess). (various references)

French

consacrer (devote), dédier (devote). (various references)

German

widmen (devote, give, to dedicate, to devote), zueignen (devote), weihen (consecrate, devote, inaugurate, open, ordain, order, sanctify, unveil). (various references)

Greek 

εγκαινιάζω (consecrate, inaugurate, initiate, open), αφιερώνω (consecrate, dedicate to, devote, sanctify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחנוך (bring up, coach, consecrate, educate, inaugurate, teach, train, tutor), להקדיש ספר. (various references)

Hungarian

dedikál (devote, to dedicate). (various references)

Indonesian

mengamanatkan (commit, entrust, instruct), mempersembahkan (devote), membaktikan. (various references)

Italian

dedicare (addict, consecrate, devote, inscribe, name after, put in, spend), votare (attune, cast, offer, pass, vote), intitolare (be entitled, be named, call, entitle, give a title to, head, name after). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead heat, dead stock, dead time, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デディケート . (various references)

Korean 

바치십시요. (various references)

Manx

chymnaghey (bequeath, dedication, depute, devise, devolve), casherickey (bless, church, church as woman, consecrate, solemnize). (various references)

Norwegian

tilegne. (various references)

Pig Latin

edicateday.(various references)

Polish

dedykować (devote), poświęcać (devote). (various references)

Portuguese

dedicar (devote), consagrar (bless, consecrate, devote, establish, hallow, inaugurate, sanctify). (various references)

Romanian

dedica (consecrate, devote, devote into, inscribe, sanctify), sfinţi (anoint, beatify, bless, consecrate, hallow, lay, pap, sanctify). (various references)

Russian 

посвящать (consecrate, dedicating, denote to, devote, devoted to, initiate, sanctify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

posvetiti (canonize, commit, consecrate, hallow, inscribe, sanctify), osvetiti (canonize, get revenge, sanctify). (various references)

Spanish

dedicar (bestow, devote, expend, give, give over, give up, inscribe, light, put in, throw). (various references)

Swedish

tillägna, ägna (apply, bestow, devote). (various references)

Turkish

vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), tahsis etmek (allot, assign, devote, earmark), ithaf etmek, hizmete sunmak, adamak (commit, consecrate, devote, give up, offer, vow, Wed, wed with). (various references)

Ukrainian

відкривати (bare, detect, discover, disembosom, find, open, reveal, unbosom, unclose, undo, unfasten, unlock), освячувати (bless, consecrate, hallow, sanctify), надписувати (character, inscribe, superscribe), присвячувати (addict, bestow, consecrate, devote, inscribe, vow). (various references)

Welsh

cysegru (consecrate, devote), cyflwyno (bestow, present). (various references)

consecrabant, consecrabis, consecrabit, consecrans, consecrantur, consecraret, consecrarit, consecrastis, consecrata, consecratae, consecratam, consecrati, consecratis, consecratisque, consecratum, consecratur, consecratus, consecraverant, consecraverat, consecraverunt, consecravi, consecravit, consecrem, consecrentur, consecretur, destinatam, destinatos, destinatum, destinaverunt, destinavit, dicamus, dicant, dicantur, dicas, dicat, dicatis, dicatque, dicatur, dicemus, dicemusque, dicent, dicentque, dicentur, dicere, dices, dicesque, dicet, dicetis, dicetque, dicetur, diceturque, dico, sacra, sacras, sacratisque, sacratum, sacro, sanciretur, sancta, sanctae, sanctam, sanctas, sancte, sancti, sanctis, sancto, sanctoque, sanctorum, sanctos, sanctum, sanctumque, sanctus, sanctusque, vota, voti, votis, voto, votum, vovebant, vovebunt, vovens, voverant, voverat, vovere, voverint, voveris, voverit, voverunt, vovete, vovi, vovimus, vovisti, vovistis, vovit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dedicate": dedicated, dedicatedly, dedicatee, dedicatees, dedicates. (additional references)

Words ending with "dedicate": rededicate. (additional references)

Words containing "dedicate": rededicated, rededicates, undedicated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dedicate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decisate, dedic, dedicat, dedicata, dedict, deficate, desiate, eddicate, edicate, edicatte. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ideated.

-2 letters: addict, caddie, decade, deceit, decide, deiced, didact, dieted, edited, ideate.

-3 letters: acted, aided, cadet, ceded, cited, dated, deice, diced, dicta, edict, tided.

-4 letters: aced, acid, adit, aide, cade, cadi, caid, cate, cede, cedi, cete, cite, dace, date, dead, deed, deet, dice, died, diet, dita, dite, edit, eide, etic, iced, idea, tace, teed.

+1 letter: deciduate, decimated, dedicated, dedicatee, dedicates, medicated.

+2 letters: accredited, dedicatees, desiccated, elucidated, eradicated, maledicted, predicated, readdicted, rededicate.

+3 letters: deactivated, decapitated, dedicatedly, deglaciated, depreciated, deracinated, detoxicated, disaffected, miseducated, rededicated, rededicates, sidetracked, thickheaded, undedicated, unmedicated.

+4 letters: credentialed, decorticated, decrepitated, democratized, denticulated, disenchanted, domesticated, reaccredited, rededicating, rededication, reduplicated, semidetached, unaccredited.

+5 letters: candlelighted, counterraided, credentialled, decaffeinated, decentralized, dechlorinated, discreditable, nonaccredited, overmedicated, rededications.