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Deploy vs Dispatch - What's the difference?

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In computing terms the difference between deploy and dispatch

is that deploy is to install, test and implement a computer system or application while dispatch is to pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).

As verbs the difference between deploy and dispatch

is that deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use while dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness.

As nouns the difference between deploy and dispatch

is that deploy is deployment while 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.

deploy

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
    • "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
  • (intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
    • He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy .
  • * '>citation
    • At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.
  • (computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
    • The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.
    Usage Note: by mid-2014, the use of this term in computing was disparagingly referred to as '>citation

    Related terms

    * deployment * redeploy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, dated) deployment

    • External links

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    References

    English ergative verbs

    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