1. Arrangement. Disposition d'une pièce.
2. Clause. Dispositions d'un traité.
3. État d'esprit. Dispositions bienveillantes.
4. Aptitude. Dispositions scientifiques.
ETYM Cf. French arrangement.
1. An orderly grouping (of things or persons).
2. An organized structure for arranging or classifying; SYN. organization, organisation, system.
3. Something made by arranging ordered parts together; the result of arranging.
4. The act of arranging a piece of music; SYN. arranging.
ETYM French clause, Late Lat. clausa, equiv. to Latin clausula clause, prop., close of rhetorical period, close, from claudere to shut, to end. Related to Close.
(Homonym: claws).
Part of a sentence that contains a subject and a verb, and joined to the rest of the sentence by a conjunction. In English,coordinating clauses are those joined by and, but, or or; with any other conjunction it is a subordinating clause.
(Grammar) An expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence.
ETYM French disposition, dispositio, from disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. Related to Position, Dispone.
1. A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing.
2. One's usual mood; SYN. temperament.