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Deploy vs Initiate - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between deploy and initiate

is that deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use while initiate is to do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

As verbs the difference between deploy and initiate

is that deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use while initiate is to begin; to start.

As nouns the difference between deploy and initiate

is that deploy is (military|dated) deployment while initiate is a new member of an organization.

As an adjective initiate is

(obsolete) unpractised; untried; new.

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 .
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    • 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

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    References

    English ergative verbs

    initiate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the initiate fear that wants hard use
  • (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
  • * Young
    • To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A new member of an organization.
  • One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.

    • Verb

    (initiat)
  • To begin; to start.
  • * I. Taylor
    • How are changes of this sort to be initiated ?
  • To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry.
  • * John Locke
    • To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough.
  • To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
  • * Bishop Warburton
    • The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death.
  • * Spectator
    • He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty.
  • To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Related terms

    * initiable * initial * initials * initialism * initialize * initiation * initiator * initiative

    Antonyms

    * (to begin) end, conclude, complete, finish

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