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Publish vs Delivery - What's the difference?

publish | delivery |

As a verb publish

is (intransitive): to issue a medium (eg publication).

As a noun delivery is

the act of conveying something.

publish

Verb

(es)
  • (intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= David Larousserie
  • , volume=189, issue=10, page=35, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier , passage=In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.}}
  • (transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
  • (transitive): To announce to the public.
  • (Internet) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.
  • (intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).
  • Derived terms

    * publishable * publisher * unpublished

    delivery

    English

    Noun

    (deliveries)
  • The act of conveying something.
  • The delivery was completed by four.
    delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
  • The item which has been conveyed.
  • Your delivery is on the table.
  • The act of giving birth
  • The delivery was painful.
  • (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • ''His delivery has a catch in it.
  • (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
  • The manner of speaking.
  • The actor's delivery was flawless.
  • * 1919 ,
  • I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman}}
  • (medicine) administration of a drug
  • Drug delivery system .
  • (cricket) A ball .
  • (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • Derived terms

    * delivery room * special delivery