Dedicated vs. Reliable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dedicated and Reliable
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Dedicated
Devoted to a task or purpose
A team of dedicated doctors
Reliable
Capable of being relied on; dependable
A reliable assistant.
A reliable car.
Dedicated
Exclusively allocated to or intended for a particular purpose
A dedicated high-speed rail link from the Channel Tunnel
Reliable
Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.
Dedicated
Wholly committed to a particular course of thought or action; devoted
A dedicated musician.
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Reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
Dedicated
Designed for a particular use or function
The fax machine is connected to a dedicated landline.
Reliable
Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
Dedicated
Devoted; loyal; conscientious.
Reliable
Something or someone reliable or dependable
The old reliables
Dedicated
Used or intended for a particular purpose
Reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object.
According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs."
Dedicated
Simple past tense and past participle of dedicate
Reliable
Worthy of reliance or trust;
A reliable source of information
A dependable worker
Dedicated
Wholly committed to a purpose or cause; as, a dedicated musician.
Reliable
Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief;
An authentic account by an eyewitness
Reliable information
Dedicated
Zealous in loyalty or affection; as, dedicated nurses.
Reliable
Worthy of being depended on;
A dependable worker
An honest working stiff
A reliable source of information
He was true to his word
I would be true for there are those who trust me
Dedicated
Set apart especially for a higher purpose; as, a life dedicated to science.
Dedicated
Devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose;
A dedicated dancer
Dedicated teachers
Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
Dedicated
Solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose;
A life consecrated to science
The consecrated chapel
A chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II
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