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Manage vs Dispatch - What's the difference?

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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between manage and dispatch

is that manage is (obsolete) to bring about; to contrive while dispatch is (obsolete) a dismissal.

As verbs the difference between manage and dispatch

is that manage is to direct or be in charge of while dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness.

As nouns the difference between manage and dispatch

is that manage is the act of managing or controlling something 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.

manage

English

Verb

(manag)
  • To direct or be in charge of.
  • To handle or control (a situation, job).
  • To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
  • The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
  • To succeed at an attempt
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  • (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
  • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageable

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of managing or controlling something.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
  • the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
  • (horseriding) .
  • See also

    * man * (projectlink)

    dispatch

    Alternative forms

    * despatch (UK, Australia)

    Verb

  • 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 citation
  • , 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
  • Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talked of.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • [The] harvest men almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.
  • To rid; to free.
  • * Udall
  • I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
  • (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)
  • 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 * send

    Derived terms

    * dispatch table

    Hyponyms

    * double dispatch * multiple dispatch * single dispatch

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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= 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 act of doing something quickly.
  • * 1661 , , 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
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things
  • , 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.
  • Derived terms

    * dispatcher * dispatch case * dispatch table