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Dispense vs Serving - What's the difference?

dispense | serving |

As verbs the difference between dispense and serving

is that dispense is while serving is .

As an adjective serving is

that or who serves or serve.

As a noun serving is

(uncountable) the action of the verb to serve .

dispense

English

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.

    Derived terms

    * dispensary * dispenser

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  • (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
  • * , II.xii:
    • what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].

    Related terms

    * dispend * dispensable * dispensation * dispensative * dispensatory

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    serving

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who serves or serve.
    • serving marines
    serving girl

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to serve .
    • The tennis match began with her serving .
  • (countable) A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone.
  • (countable) A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it

    • Verb

    (head)