Dedicated has shrugged off a lot of this, in many contexts, and is comfortably used with reference to something that is set aside or reserved for a particular purpose. It is commonly used in some of the most prosaic contexts - dedicated printers, dedicated communications facilities, and so on.
Hello, What would be the most appropriate word for this sentence? "The course is dedicated to/devoted to/ destined to/aimed at children and adolescents."
Dedicated to maintain can be interpreted as a contraction of dedicated in order to maintain, while dedicated to maintaining has only one interpretation.
I would like to thank you for the time you have dedicated to me
I never made the distinction, but WIKI does. Loyal vs Devoted - What's the difference? As adjectives the difference between loyal and devoted is that loyal is having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something while devoted is vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
Thank you Egmont and Chasint now I’m clear about “on one’s own merits” but still confused about “in one’s own right”, I’ve gone through some previous threads regarding this phrase which said “ it is used as a figure of speech. It's an idiom. It does not necessarily mean having dedicated your life to a particular profession. It simply means you have become a true artist, a ...
In North America, the term pickup is used for light trucks with a lighter duty chassis and factory built, integrated bed, as well as for coupé utility vehicles, often based on a personal car chassis, but also often on a special dedicated chassi for such use. That's from the wiki on pickup truck.
Pope's theory was that different people had different 'ruling passions', love of praise, money, obstinate love of their country (in Cobham's case - to whom the First Epistle is dedicated), etc.