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Disperse vs Deploy - What's the difference?

disperse | deploy |

As verbs the difference between disperse and deploy

is that disperse is while deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.

As a noun deploy is

(military|dated) deployment.

disperse

English

Verb

  • (intransitive) To scatter in different directions
  • The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
  • The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
  • * Cowper
  • Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .
  • (intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
  • (intransitive) To disseminate
  • (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
  • (intransitive) To distribute throughout
  • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

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    deploy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
  • "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
  • (intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
  • He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy .
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  • At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.
  • (computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
  • The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.
    Usage Note: by mid-2014, the use of this term in computing was disparagingly referred to as '>citation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, dated) deployment