different between deploy vs conscription

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displic?re (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??pl??/

Verb

deploy (third-person singular simple present deploys, present participle deploying, simple past and past participle deployed)

1. (transitive, ergative) To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.

   • 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.

3. (computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.

Related terms

• deployment
• redeploy

Translations

Noun

deploy (plural deploys)

1. (military, dated) deployment

Further reading

• deploy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deploy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deploy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ployed, podley, polyed

English

Etymology

From Middle French conscription, from Latin c?nscripti? (“levying of troops”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?sk??p??n/

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

   Synonym: draft

2. An enrolling or registering.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     conscription of men of war

Related terms

• conscribe
• conscript

Translations

Further reading

• “conscription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin c?nscr?pti?; however, semantically derived from conscrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

Further reading

• “conscription” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).