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Deployment vs Usage - What's the difference?

deployment | usage |

As a noun deployment

is an arrangement or classification of things.

As an adjective usage is

used.

deployment

English

(wikipedia deployment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An arrangement or classification of things.
  • An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
  • The distribution of military forces prior to battle.
  • * H. L. Scott
    • Deployments which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.
  • (parachuting) the start of something

    • Derived terms

    * software deployment

    Related terms

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    usage

    English

    (wikipedia usage)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The manner or the amount of using; use
  • Habit or accepted practice
  • (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
  • # Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
  • # Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.

    • Derived terms

    * usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panel

    References

    * * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.

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