Dispatch vs Deliver - What's the difference?
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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
, 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
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
To rid; to free.
* Udall
(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)
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= The act of doing something quickly.
* 1661 , ,
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title=
, 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.
To set free.
(label) To do with birth.
# To give birth.
# To assist in the birth of.
# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
#* Gower
(label) To free from or disburden of anything.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
To bring or transport something to its destination.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered .}}
To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
* Bible, (w) xl. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To express in words, declare, or utter.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To discover; to show.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To admit; to allow to pass.
In obsolete terms the difference between dispatch and deliver
is that dispatch is a dismissal while deliver is to admit; to allow to pass.As verbs the difference between dispatch and deliver
is that dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness while deliver is to set free.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
citation
- Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talked of.
- [The] harvest men almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.
- I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
- 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 * sendDerived terms
* dispatch tableHyponyms
* double dispatch * multiple dispatch * single dispatchNoun
(es)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 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
An internet of airborne things
Derived terms
* dispatcher * dispatch case * dispatch tabledeliver
English
Alternative forms
* delivre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was delivered safe and soon.
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
- The constables have delivered her over.
- The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), passage=It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver .}}
- shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
- An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.
- I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.
- (Francis Bacon)