Dispatch vs Conclude - What's the difference?

Dispatch is a synonym of conclude.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between dispatch and conclude

is that dispatch is (obsolete) a dismissal while conclude is (obsolete) to include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

As verbs the difference between dispatch and conclude

is that dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness while conclude is to end; to come to an end.

As a noun dispatch

is a message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.

dispatch

English

(wikipedia dispatch)

Alternative forms

* despatch (UK, Australia)

Verb

To send a shipment with promptness.

To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.

To send a journalist to a place in order to report

*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation

, passage=Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.}}

To hurry.

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

* Shakespeare

Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talked of.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

[The] harvest men almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.

To rid; to free.

* Udall

I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.

(obsolete) To deprive.

To destroy quickly and efficiently.

(computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to ).

* 2004 , Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification (page 102)

These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel

Synonyms

* destroy * kill * make haste * send

Derived terms

* dispatch table

Hyponyms

* double dispatch * multiple dispatch * single dispatch

Noun

(es)

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

The act of doing something quickly.

* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things

, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}

A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.

(obsolete) A dismissal.

Derived terms

* dispatcher * dispatch case * dispatch table

conclude

English

Verb

(conclud)

To end; to come to an end.

The story concluded with a moral.

To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

* Francis Bacon

I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

to conclude a bargain

* Shakespeare

if we conclude a peace

To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

* Tillotson

No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.

* Addison

But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.

The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

* Sir M. Hale

If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.

* Hooker

The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

* Bible, Romans xi. 32

For God hath concluded all in unbelief.

* Bible, Gal. iii. 22

The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.

(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Derived terms

* concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusible

Antonyms

* (to end) begin, initiate, start