Deploy vs Harness - What's the difference?
deploy | harness |
To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
(intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
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(computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
English ergative verbs
(countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
(countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
(dated) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
* 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth , act V, scene V
The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
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In transitive terms the difference between deploy and harness
is that deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use while harness is to capture, control or put to use.deploy
English
Verb
(en verb)- "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
- He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy .
- 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.
- 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.
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English
Noun
(es)- Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
- At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Derived terms
* harnessed antelope * harnessed moth * test harnessVerb
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Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}