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dispatch
English
Alternative forms
- despatch (UK, Australia)
Etymology
From Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, replacing alternate reflex depeach, which is from French dépêcher. The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d??spæt?/
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /d??spæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Verb
dispatch (third-person singular simple present dispatches, present participle dispatching, simple past and past participle dispatched)
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To destroy quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To hurry.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deprive.
Synonyms
- destroy
- kill
- make haste
- send
Hyponyms
Related terms
- dispatch table
- happy dispatch
Translations
Noun
dispatch (countable and uncountable, plural dispatches)
- 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.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- Synonyms: haste, hurry, rapidity
- 1661, John Fell, 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 […]
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially via a dispatch table.
- (obsolete) A dismissal.
Translations
Derived terms
- dispatcher
- dispatch case
- dispatch table
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babble
English
Etymology
From Middle English babelen, from Old English *bæblian, also wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), from Proto-Germanic *babal?n? (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?a-b?a-, perhaps a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say”), or a variant of Proto-Indo-European *baba- (“to talk vaguely, mumble”), or a merger of the two, possibly ultimately onomatopoetic/mimicry of infantile sounds. Cognate with Old Frisian babbelje (“to babble”), Old Norse babbla (“to babble”) (Swedish babbla), Middle Low German babbelen (“to babble”), Dutch babbelen (“to babble, chat”), German pappeln and babbeln (“to babble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæb.l?/
- Rhymes: -æb?l
Verb
babble (third-person singular simple present babbles, present participle babbling, simple past and past participle babbled)
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from Descriptive Sketches
- In every babbling brook he finds a friend.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from Descriptive Sketches
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- These [words] he used to babble indifferently in all companies.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
Translations
Noun
babble (usually uncountable, plural babbles)
- Idle talk; senseless prattle
- Synonyms: gabble, twaddle
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, a Mask, line 823:
- This is mere moral babble.
- Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
- 1871, Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- The babble of our young children.
- 1871, Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The babble of the stream.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
Hyponyms
Translations
See also
- babblement
- babblery
References
- babble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
German
Verb
babble
- inflection of babbeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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