Distribute vs Dispatch - What's the difference?
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(senseid)To divide into portions and dispense.
(senseid)To supply to retail outlets.
(senseid)To deliver or pass out.
(senseid)To scatter or spread.
(senseid)To apportion (more or less evenly).
(senseid)To classify or separate into categories.
(senseid)(mathematics) To be distributive.
(printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
(printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
(logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
* Whately
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.
As verbs the difference between distribute and dispatch
is that distribute is (to divide into portions and dispense) To divide into portions and dispense while dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness.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.distribute
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Verb
(distribut)- He distributed the bread amongst his followers.
- The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.
- A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
- I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.
- The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.
- The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.
- A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.
Derived terms
* distributable * distribution * distributionism * distributism * distributivism * distributivity * distributorExternal links
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*dispatch
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(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
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