Deposition vs. Disposition — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Deposition and Disposition
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Definitions
Deposition
The act of deposing, as from high office.
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.
Deposition
The act of depositing, especially the laying down of matter by a natural process.
Disposition
A person's inherent qualities of mind and character
He has the disposition of a saint
Your sunny disposition has a way of rubbing off on those around you
Deposition
Something deposited; a deposit.
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Disposition
The way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things
The plan shows the disposition of the rooms
Deposition
(Law) Sworn testimony recorded for use in court at a later date.
Disposition
The distribution or transfer of property or money to someone, especially by bequest
This is a tax which affects the disposition of assets on death
Deposition
Deposition The removal of Jesus from the cross.
Disposition
The power to deal with something as one pleases
If Napoleon had had railways at his disposition, he would have been invincible
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Deposition
The removal of someone from office.
Disposition
One's usual mood; temperament
A sweet disposition.
Deposition
The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
Disposition
A habitual inclination; a tendency
A disposition to disagree.
Deposition
(chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
Disposition
A physical property or tendency
A swelling with a disposition to rupture.
Deposition
(legal) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
Disposition
Arrangement, positioning, or distribution
A cheerful disposition of colors and textures.
A convoy oriented into a north-south disposition.
Deposition
(meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
Disposition
An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.
Deposition
(physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
Disposition
The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose
The funds that were put at her disposition.
Deposition
(religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
Disposition
The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:
Deposition
The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles.
Disposition
Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:
Deposition
The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
The influence of princes upon the dispositions of their courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since it hath the authority of a known principle.
Disposition
Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
I have little disposition now to do as you say.
Salt has a disposition to dissolve in water.
Deposition
The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
Disposition
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
She has a sunny disposition.
He has such a foul disposition.
Deposition
That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.
Disposition
To remove or place in a different position.
Deposition
An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.
Disposition
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.
The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.
Deposition
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.
Disposition
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.
Deposition
The natural process of laying down a deposit of something
Disposition
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.
Deposition
(law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually done in a lawyer's office
Disposition
Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
How stands your disposition to be married?
Deposition
The act of putting something somewhere
Disposition
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.
Deposition
The act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
Disposition
Mood; humor.
As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.
Disposition
Your usual mood;
He has a happy disposition
Disposition
The act or means of getting rid of something
Disposition
An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
He had an inclination to give up too easily
A tendency to be too strict
Disposition
A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;
A swelling with a disposition to rupture
