Deposition vs. Disposition

Depositionnoun

The removal of someone from office.

Depositionnoun

The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.

Depositionnoun

(chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.

Depositionnoun

(legal) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.

Depositionnoun

(meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.

Depositionnoun

(physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)

Depositionnoun

(religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.

Depositionnoun

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.

Depositionnoun

The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.

Depositionnoun

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

Depositionnoun

That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.

Depositionnoun

An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.

Depositionnoun

The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.

Depositionnoun

the natural process of laying down a deposit of something

Depositionnoun

(law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually done in a lawyer's office

Depositionnoun

the act of putting something somewhere

Depositionnoun

the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office

Dispositionnoun

The arrangement or placement of certain things.

Dispositionnoun

Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.

Dispositionnoun

Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.

Dispositionnoun

Control over something.

Dispositionnoun

(legal) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.

Dispositionnoun

(legal) Final decision or settlement.

Dispositionnoun

(medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.

Dispositionnoun

(music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.

Dispositionverb

To remove or place in a different position.

Dispositionnoun

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

Dispositionnoun

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

Dispositionnoun

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

Dispositionnoun

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

Dispositionnoun

Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

Dispositionnoun

Mood; humor.

Dispositionnoun

your usual mood;

Dispositionnoun

the act or means of getting rid of something

Dispositionnoun

an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;

Dispositionnoun

a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;

Dispositionnoun

a person's inherent qualities of mind and character

Dispositionnoun

an inclination or tendency

Dispositionnoun

the way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things

Dispositionnoun

the action of arranging people or things in a particular way

Dispositionnoun

the stationing of troops ready for military action

Dispositionnoun

the distribution or transfer of property or money to someone, especially by bequest

Dispositionnoun

the power to deal with something as one pleases

Dispositionnoun

the determination of events by divine power.

Disposition

A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way that may be learned. The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief that is currently being considered by the mind.