Appoint vs Dispatch - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between appoint and dispatch

is that appoint is (obsolete|transitive) to fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out while dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness.

As a noun dispatch is

a message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.

appoint

English

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

* 1611 , (King James Version) Proverbs 8.29

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

To fix the time and place of a meeting (by a decree, order, command etc.)

* 8 November 2014 , Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph'', '' Art on demand makes emperors of us all

*:We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.

* 1820 , The Edinburgh Annual Register

*:His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty ; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him ; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.

* 1611 , (King James Version) 2 Samuel 15.15

Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint .

To give a job or a role to somebody

* 3 November 2014 , Fredric U. Dicker in the (New York Post), '' Cuomo appointed 'vote or else' strategist

*:Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders

* 1611 , (King James Version) Numbers 4.19

Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.

To furnish completely; to provide with all the equipment necessary; to equip or fit out.

* 2009 , Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies

*:The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.

(archaic, transitive, legal) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance;—said of an estate already conveyed.

:(Alexander Mansfield Burrill)

To point at by way of censure or commendation; to arraign.

* Milton

Appoint not heavenly disposition.

Derived terms

* appointee * appointer * appointive * appointment * self-appointed

External links

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dispatch

English

(wikipedia dispatch)

Alternative forms

* despatch (UK, Australia)

Verb

To send a shipment with promptness.

To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.

To send a journalist to a place in order to report

*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation

, passage=Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.}}

To hurry.

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

* Shakespeare

Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talked of.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

[The] harvest men almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.

To rid; to free.

* Udall

I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.

(obsolete) To deprive.

To destroy quickly and efficiently.

(computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to ).

* 2004 , Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification (page 102)

These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel

Synonyms

* destroy * kill * make haste * send

Derived terms

* dispatch table

Hyponyms

* double dispatch * multiple dispatch * single dispatch

Noun

(es)

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

The act of doing something quickly.

* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things

, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}

A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.

(obsolete) A dismissal.

Derived terms

* dispatcher * dispatch case * dispatch table