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.

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Verb

(es)

(intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).

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, volume=189, issue=10, page=35, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier , passage=In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.}}

(transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.

(transitive): To announce to the public.

(Internet) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.

(intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).