different between despatch vs deploy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??spæt?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d??spæt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??spæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Noun

despatch (countable and uncountable, plural despatches)

1. Alternative form of dispatch
   • 1843, William Hickling Prescott, The Conquest of Mexico, Volume 1, 1957, page 31,

     The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of a hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station, […] .

Verb

despatch (third-person singular simple present despatches, present participle despatching, simple past and past participle despatched)

1. Alternative form of dispatch
   • 1833, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 8-9, page 31,

     She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.

See also

• Mentioned in Despatches on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chestpad

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