dispenser

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispense + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈspɛnsə/

Noun

dispenser (plural dispensers)

  1. Something or someone that dispenses things.
    • 2014 October 30, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart: 'The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, opens on Broadway [print version: When the witty head is far ahead of the heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor star in revival of 'Real Thing', International New York Times, 4 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
      While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.
    1. An object used to dispense other items.
      a toilet-paper dispenser
    2. A person who makes up prescriptions, such as an optician or pharmacist.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispēnsāre. Compare dépenser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.pɑ̃.se/
  • (file)

Verb

dispenser

  1. (transitive) to excuse, exempt (de from)
  2. (transitive, literary) to dispense, give out, radiate
  3. (transitive) to distribute, dispense
  4. (reflexive) to avoid, refrain (de from)

Conjugation

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

From English dispenser, from Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dɪsˈpɛnsər]
  • Hyphenation: dis‧pèn‧sêr

Noun

dispènsêr (first-person possessive dispenserku, second-person possessive dispensermu, third-person possessive dispensernya)

  1. dispenser
    1. (colloquial) water dispenser.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dispenser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diˈspɛn.ser/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnser
  • Hyphenation: di‧spèn‧ser

Noun

dispenser m (invariable)

  1. dispenser
    Synonyms: distributore, erogatore

Derived terms

  • dispenser di sapone

Further reading

  • dispenser in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

dispēnser

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dispēnsō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dispenser.

Noun

dispenser m (definite singular dispenseren, indefinite plural dispensere, definite plural dispenserne)

  1. a dispenser (object used to dispense)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dispenser.

Noun

dispenser m (definite singular dispenseren, indefinite plural dispenserar, definite plural dispenserane)

  1. a dispenser (object used to dispense)

References

Swedish

Noun

dispenser

  1. indefinite plural of dispens
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