Notice vs Dispatch - What's the difference?

Notice is a related term of dispatch.

As nouns the difference between notice and dispatch

is that notice is the act of observing; perception 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 verbs the difference between notice and dispatch

is that notice is to observe or take notice of while dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness.

notice

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of observing; perception.

*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

*:How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons?

(lb) A written or printed announcement.

(lb) A formal notification or warning.

The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice .

(senseid) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.

(lb) A published critical review of a play or the like.(rfex)

(lb) Prior notification.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:Ihave given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here.

(lb) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

Derived terms

* short notice

Verb

(notic)

To observe or take notice of.

* 1991 ,

So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}

To detect; to perceive with the mind.

Synonyms

* recognize

Antonyms

* ignore * neglect

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Anagrams

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dispatch

English

(wikipedia 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