Defer vs Async - What's the difference?
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As a verb defer is to delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service or defer can be (legal) to submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority. As an adjective async is (computing) asynchronous.
defer English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) differer, from (etyl) .
Verb
( deferr)
To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
* Shakespeare
- Defer the spoil of the city until night.
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=3
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, passage=My departure for Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.}}
to delay, to wait
* Milton
- God will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name.
(American football) to choose to kick off after winning the opening coin toss.
Related terms
* differ
Derived terms
* deferral
Etymology 2
* From (etyl)
Verb
( deferr)
(legal) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
* Francis Bacon
- Hereupon the commissioners deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
* 1899 ,
- "Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.
to render, to offer
* Brevint
- worship deferred to the Virgin
Derived terms
* deference
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async English
Adjective
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(computing) Asynchronous.
* 2002 , Peter Dibble, Real-time Java platform programming
- The tradeoff is that the first time an async event causes a scheduling point, it incurs the thread creation overhead that it has avoided.
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