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Dispatch vs Dispart - What's the difference?

dispatch | dispart |

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

is that dispatch is (obsolete) a dismissal while dispart is (obsolete) to divide, divide up, distribute.

As verbs the difference between dispatch and dispart

is that dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness while dispart is to part, separate or dispart can be to furnish with a dispart sight.

As nouns the difference between dispatch and dispart

is that 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 while dispart is the difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

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

    dispart

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dispartire and its source, (etyl) dispartire.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To part, separate.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
  • *:that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod [...].
  • * Emerson
    • The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted .
  • (obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place [...].

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
  • * Eng. Cyc.
    • On account of the dispart , the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.
  • A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a dispart sight.
  • To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
  • * Lucar
    • Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.