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.
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
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."
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.
To carry out his PhD, he needed to build a dedicated test rig, This project requires a cost-intensive test stand, Fig. 1 presents a laboratory stand for determination of the discharge coefficient from damaged pipes. Incidentally, "cost-intensive" can't be used like this to mean "expensive".