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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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precipitation
English
Etymology
From Middle French précipitation, from Latin praecipit?ti?, praecipit?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /p???s?p??te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
precipitation (countable and uncountable, plural precipitations)
- (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- South Korea’s Ministry of Environment said in a news release that no major precipitation was observed after the cloud seeding operation.
- South Korea’s Ministry of Environment said in a news release that no major precipitation was observed after the cloud seeding operation.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- A hurried headlong fall.
- (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
- (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
- […] had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase.
- 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hydrometeor
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- precipitation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- haste
- rashness
Anagrams
- intraepitopic
precipitation From the web:
- what precipitation means
- what precipitation means in weather
- what precipitation means rain
- what precipitation comes from cirrus clouds
- what precipitation is extreme
- what precipitation percent means
- what precipitation do
- what are the 4 types of precipitation
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