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Delivery vs Despatch - What's the difference?

delivery | despatch |

As nouns the difference between delivery and despatch

is that delivery is the act of conveying something while despatch is (see also wikipedia's ).

As a verb despatch is

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delivery

English

Noun

(deliveries)
  • The act of conveying something.
    • The delivery was completed by four.
    delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
  • The item which has been conveyed.
    • Your delivery is on the table.
  • The act of giving birth
    • The delivery was painful.
  • (baseball) A pitching motion.
    • ''His delivery has a catch in it.
  • (baseball) A thrown pitch.
    • ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
  • The manner of speaking.
    • The actor's delivery was flawless.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman}}
  • (medicine) administration of a drug
    • Drug delivery system .
  • (cricket) A ball .
  • (curling) The process of throwing a stone.

    • Derived terms

    * delivery room * special delivery

    despatch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (see also Wikipedia's )
  • * 1843 , , The Conquest of Mexico , Volume 1, 1957, page 31,
    • The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of a hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station,.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch -case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}

    Verb

    (es)
  • *1833 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 8-9, page 31,
  • *:She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}