All 4 Uses of
dispose
in
Doctor Zhivago
- Ruffina Onissimovna was a woman of advanced views, entirely unprejudiced, and well disposed toward everything that she called "positive and vital."†
Chpt 1.4 *
- We've put one of them at Pamphil's disposal.
Chpt 2.11 *disposal = command
- Several seats have been put at my disposal for my assistants.
Chpt 2.14
- The manager's flat had been put at his disposal, but he preferred the old porter's lodge, which had floors of beaten earth but which also had running water and an enormous Russian stove.
Chpt 2.15
Definitions:
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(dispose as in: disposed the troops along...) the arrangement, positioning, or use of thingseditor's notes: This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.
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(dispose as in: dispose of the waste) to throw away