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Detention vs Despatch - What's the difference?

detention | despatch |

As nouns the difference between detention and despatch

is that detention is detention while despatch is (see also wikipedia's ).

As a verb despatch is

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detention

English

Noun

(wikipedia detention)
  • (uncountable) The act of detaining or the state of being detained.
  • (countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of a student being punished.

    • Derived terms

    * detention basin * detention home

    despatch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (see also Wikipedia's )
  • * 1843 , , The Conquest of Mexico , Volume 1, 1957, page 31,
    • The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of a hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station,.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch -case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}

    Verb

    (es)
  • *1833 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 8-9, page 31,
  • *:She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}