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Deploy vs Implement - What's the difference?

deploy | implement |

As nouns the difference between implement and deploy

is that implement is a tool or instrument for working with while deploy is deployment.

As verbs the difference between implement and deploy

is that implement is to bring about; to put into practice while deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.

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 .
  • * '>citation
    • 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

    Related terms

    * deployment * redeploy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, dated) deployment

    • External links

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    References

    English ergative verbs

    implement

    English

    (wikipedia implement)

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tool or instrument for working with.
    • They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:
    • A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    From Scottish English or (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to bring about; to put into practice
    • It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement .
  • to carry out; to do
    • Usage notes
    * Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.
    Derived terms
    * implementable * implementation * implementer

    External links

    * * English heteronyms