Dispatch vs Finish - What's the difference?
dispatch | finish | Synonyms |
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.
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* {{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.
an end: the end of anything
a protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces
the result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth
(label) a shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 2
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Bulgaria 0-3 England
, work=BBC
(label) to complete (something)
(label) to apply a treatment to (a surface or similar)
*
, 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. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
(label) to change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal
(label) to come to an end
As verbs the difference between dispatch and finish
is that dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness while finish is to complete (something.As nouns the difference between dispatch and finish
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 finish is an end: the end of anything.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 tablefinish
English
Noun
(es)citation, page= , passage=The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.}}