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devoted

[dih-voh-tid]

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adjective

zealous or ardent in attachment, loyalty, or affection: a devoted friend.

Origin:
1585–95; devote + -ed²

Related forms

de·vot·ed·ly, adverb

de·vot·ed·ness, noun

o·ver·de·vot·ed, adjective

o·ver·de·vot·ed·ly, adverb

o·ver·de·vot·ed·ness, noun

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qua·si-de·vot·ed, adjective

qua·si-de·vot·ed·ly, adverb

un·de·vot·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
faithful, constant, loyal, devout.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Finally, a thread that's not devoted to whining and pop culture.

Another factor may have been that investment banks have devoted more energy and capital to trading in financial markets.

Design a theme park devoted to great moments in architecture and engineering.

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Finally, a thread that's not devoted to whining and pop culture.

Another factor may have been that investment banks have devoted more energy and capital to trading in financial markets.

Design a theme park devoted to great moments in architecture and engineering.

Utterly devoted to duty, the fighters never retreat from a confrontation-even in the face of certain death.

Little research has been devoted to studying sunburn on animals other than humans and lab mice.

In some well-stocked health food stores, entire aisles are devoted to nondairy milks.

The world's only telescopes devoted to searching for aliens went dark two months ago because of a lack of funds.

We find this particularly distressing in a scholarly community supposedly devoted to freewheeling inquiry.

Their book is devoted to making the case for a single bold solution.

Discover advances in marine science and the latest research programs at this facility devoted to studying the undersea world.

Ah, the crack of the baseball bat¿it is for the devoted fan as evocative of the game as the seventh-inning stretch.

In blind people, parts of the brain that normally process sight are instead devoted to hearing.

Believe it or not, the one room of the home devoted to cleanliness can often be filled with unhealthy toxins–not so fresh.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been devoted to it.

Increasingly, the sites have sections devoted to alternative careers as well.

Many books have been devoted to risk and risk management, especially as practiced by corporate bosses and money managers.

Amanaka'a is devoted to supporting the indigenous people of the rain forest.

So much, in fact, that much of the volume of current models is devoted to carrying it.

The fourth meeting is devoted to long-range planning.

One is devoted to my beloved chickens for their dirt/sand baths.

Homepages devoted to beloved pets rarely provoke much attention.

But there was also, perhaps inevitably, a session devoted to a certain ubiquitous game show.

Finland has more special-education teachers devoted to laggards than anyone else-as many as one teacher in seven in some schools.

Duncan saw the strain of parenting in an adult male he observed at the end of a summer devoted to raising five chicks.

Each lesson will be devoted to an observation culled from among the many exploits of the great detective.

For devoted cult movie fans, there is some hallowed ground where remake-minded producers probably shouldn't tread.

The verbiage devoted to the denigration of spell check could fill a dictionary.

In a debate devoted to domestic issues, he sounded especially authoritative on education and healthcare.

Your guide should contain a page devoted to each plant or animal that you choose to include.

One is to increase the amount of land devoted to growing wheat.

Just go to any mega-chain bookstore and check out the square footage devoted to the kids.

I've decided to focus on links to information about upcoming meetings devoted to the topic.

There is also a large section devoted to our oceans and space.

Biologists have devoted many years to studying how the anthrax toxin invades a cell and does its killing work.

After all, geologists have devoted careers to geological geotourism.

Farming allows higher population densities and more time devoted to the development of technology.

The trade has become highly technical, meaning only devoted professionals can earn a living from once was the pastime of priests.

With more resources devoted to applications, lets hope that the basic research doesn't get lost.

Japan's nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to convince the public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power.

Of late, however, much of that deliberation has been devoted to its own rules.

The innovative artist has devoted his life to transforming.

She will be remembered as an exceptional wife and mother who devoted her life to her family.

Entire pages are devoted to photos and perhaps a single provocative sentence.

Smits is hopeful that some of this money will be devoted to preserving the rainforests that are home to orangutans.

Forni has devoted his career to convincing people to conduct their lives with kindness and civility.

He propagates, sells, and designs gardens devoted largely to succulents.

She was a devoted wife and mother who loved life and will be sorely missed by many.

Johnson as someone who was acutely interested in his students and devoted much of his time to promoting science and mathematics.

The firm will remain private, family-owned and devoted to menswear.

Structures in the human brain once devoted only to visualizing spaces are now also involved in.

Most of the back of our brain is devoted to visual processing, and half of the cortex is involved with sight.

The segment, one in a series devoted to viewing the country's natural.

Charles doubtless spends happy hours trolling the ten billion or so sites devoted to filthy, unsubstantiated celebrity gossip.

But with a devoted following, why would he ever want to leave.

There weren't a half-dozen cable networks devoted to kids' shows around.

Newsweek devoted almost an entire issue to the subject.

He devoted himself to traveling the district, listening.

Southwest gardeners can draw from an ever-expanding palette of desert-adapted plants, thanks to the efforts of devoted plant.

At the same time, the group was also devoted to developing new defusing technologies.

Academe, devoted to perceived threats to academic freedom and research integrity from various economic and political interests.

The school is also the apex of the vast global industry devoted to teaching business.

Main features are devoted to social issues such as children's rights, education of girls, and traffic and pedestrian safety.

Great to see so much effort being devoted in this important area:.

There are devoted parents, and a male that courts anything that moves.

Both are devoted to an island cuisine based on local ingredients, such as the longans.

There's even a national organization devoted to singing scientists.

Colleagues and friends remember him as someone who devoted his life to helping troubled adolescents and preventing suicide.

That's because the brain recruits cells normally devoted to hearing to help them see better, the research revealed.

The area surrounding my crossroad was devoted to agriculture.

Gage had been a conscientious worker and a devoted family man before the accident.

The letter from the dissertation chair of one applicant devoted a full paragaph.

But only a small fraction of defence spending is devoted to developing electronics.

Miller says that in order to evaluate the relative proportion of mating effort devoted to short- and long-term mating in.

Kudos to you for remaining devoted to your dream and ideas.

Lavendryad is devoted solely to the sweet, herbal scent of lavender.

Most of the book is devoted to a cataloguing of bridal accoutrements: the dress, the garter, the groom.

Hundreds of devoted volunteers tend those trees and others in the foundation's orchards.

Page has devoted much of his working life to the study of the genetic package that confers maleness.

The world's only museum devoted to aviation-related toys.

Hunger also often leaves people more susceptible to disease, so that more output has to be devoted to health care.

Weekly newsstand magazine devoted to leisure pursuits.

Some of that traffic will be devoted to such mundane matters as e-commerce for basic household necessities.

Tallis, a former clinical neuroscientist who devoted years to studying stroke and.

Have students create a brochure advertising a museum devoted to the preservation of shipwrecks.

And the neural real estate devoted to vision increases.

It's an intensive, week-long seminar devoted to a particular topic.

And all this with hardly any money devoted to internal agency overhead.

He said the media attention devoted to the theft could inform the.

Chronic pain can shrink the volume of the brain's gray matter, the portion of the brain devoted to thought.

Everyone seemed happy and devoted to community service, despite their terror of high school next.

Bioethicists have devoted thousands of pages to debates about the system.

As a postdoc, your time is meant to be devoted to furthering your research.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -vot·ed, -vot·ing.

to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.

to appropriate by or as if by a vow; set apart or dedicate by a solemn or formal act; consecrate: She devoted her life to God.

to commit to evil or destruction; doom.

Origin:
1580–90; < Latin dēvōtus vowed (past participle of dēvovēre), equivalent to dē- de- + vōtus; see vote, vow

Synonyms
1. assign, apply, consign. 2. Devote, dedicate, consecrate share the sense of assigning or applying someone or something to an activity, function, or end. Devote, though it has some overtones of religious dedication, is the most general of the three terms: He devoted his free time to mastering the computer. Dedicate is more solemn and carries an ethical or moral tone: We are dedicated to the achievement of equality for all. Consecrate, even in nonreligious contexts, clearly implies a powerful and sacred dedication: consecrated to the service of humanity.

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World English Dictionary

devoted (dɪˈvəʊtɪd)

—*adj* (foll by to)
1.	feeling or demonstrating loyalty or devotion; ardent; devout
2.	set apart, dedicated, or consecrated

de'votedly

—*adv*

de'votedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

devote

1580s, from L. devotus, pp. of devovere (see devotion).

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devoted

1590s, "set apart by a vow," pp. adj. from devote. Meaning "characterized by devotion" is from c.1600.

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