Verb

To issue, distribute, or put out.

* Sir Walter Scott

He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.

* 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.

To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

to dispense justice

* Dryden

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.

To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .

I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.

(obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

* , II.34:

After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.

* Macaulay

It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.

* Johnson

He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.

(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

* Spenser

One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .

* Gower

His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.

Verb

(en verb)

To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.

To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.

Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.

* Milton

Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.

To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.

Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.

to inject the blood vessels

To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.

It's been a week since I stopped injecting , and I'm still in withdrawal.

(computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.

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, year=1996 , monthday=November 11 , author=David Taillé , email=taille@calva.net , title=Getting Process information , id=MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr , group=comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 citation

Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).

* {{quote-usenet

, year=1999 , monthday=August 23 , author=Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein , email=osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br , title=Java is Going to Be the Death of Java , id=001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr , group=comp.lang.java.advocacy citation

As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.

* {{quote-book

, year=2003 , author=Ryan Russell , title=Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box , chapter=The Thief No One Saw citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=146 , passage=A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=2007 , author=Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen , title=XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense , chapter=XSS Theory citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=86 , passage=DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=2010 , author=Andrew Moore , title=Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies , chapter=AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It citation , isbn=9780470539439 , page=410 , passage=The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.}}

(obsolete) To cast or throw; used with on .

* Alexander Pope

And mound inject on mound.