Entry vs Dispatch - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of entering.
(uncountable) Permission to enter.
A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
(linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
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 nouns the difference between entry and dispatch
is that entry is (uncountable) the act of entering while 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.As a verb dispatch is
to send a shipment with promptness.entry
English
(wikipedia entry)Alternative forms
* entery (chiefly archaic)Noun
- entry for children only if accompanied by an adult
- What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?
- The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.
Usage notes
Ambiguity Prevention * Correct: entry for children * Not: entry to children as this means that you are entering TO (get to) a child. It is incorrect.Synonyms
* (act of entering ): access, entering, entrance * (permission to enter ): access, admission * (doorway that provides a means of entering a building ): entrance, ingang, way in (British) * (room just inside the front door of a building ): entrance hall, foyer, hall, vestibule, ingang * (group within a church ): * (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia ): article * (record in a log ): record * (term in a matrix ): element * (item of data in a database ):Antonyms
* (act of entering ): departure, exit, exiting, leaving * (doorway that provides a means of entering a building ): exit, way out (British)Derived terms
(terms derived from entry) * door entry system * entryway * no entrydispatch
English
(wikipedia dispatch)Alternative forms
* despatch (UK, Australia)Verb
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- 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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