Dispatch
[dɪˈspætʃ] or [dɪ'spætʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of sending off something.
(noun.) killing a person or animal.
(noun.) the property of being prompt and efficient; 'it was done with dispatch'.
(noun.) an official report (usually sent in haste).
(verb.) kill without delay; 'the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators'.
(verb.) send away towards a designated goal.
(verb.) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently; 'He dispatched the task he was assigned'.
(verb.) complete or carry out; 'discharge one's duties'.
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
(v. t.) To rid; to free.
(v. t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
(v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
(v. t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.
(v. i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
(v. t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
(v. t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
(v. t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
(v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
(v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [Written also Despatch.] [1]. Send away (in haste).[2]. Kill, slay, slaughter, assassinate, put to death, send out of the world.[3]. Hasten, expedite, accelerate, speed, quicken, forward, push or urge forward, press or urge on, make short work of.
n. [1]. Speed, haste, expedition, promptness, celerity.[2]. Message, communication, telegram.
Typist: Naomi
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Expedite, send, accelerate, hasten, execute, conclude,{Used_also_in_the_sense_of_kill}
ANT:Retard, detain, obstruct, impede
Typed by Freddie
Definition
Same as Despatch.
v.t. to send away hastily: to send out of the world: to put to death: to dispose of: to perform speedily.—v.i. (Shak.) to make haste.—n. a sending away in haste: dismissal: rapid performance: haste: the sending off of the mails: that which is despatched as a message esp. telegraphic.—ns. Despatch′-boat a government vessel for carrying despatches; Despatch′-box a box for containing official despatches; Despatch′er.—adv. Despatch′ful (Milt.) swift.—Happy despatch a playful name given to the Japanese hara-kiri or judicial suicide; Pneumatic despatch (see Pneumatic).
Checker: Reginald
Examples
- I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He brings a dispatch to General Golz. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Arriving at Columbus on the 16th I reported by telegraph: Your dispatch from Cairo of the 3d directing me to report from Cairo was received at 11. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Andr?Marty put his hand in his pocket and laid the dispatch on the table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Within an hour of the receipt of this dispatch and Mr. James Harthouse's card, Mr. Bounderby put on his hat and went down to the Hotel. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This dispatch was sent in triplicate, by different messengers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And then swiftly he dispatched his aides-de-camp to command the horse to fall on the routed enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At some distance away she stopped, and a boat was lowered and dispatched toward the beach. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A boat was dispatched to the cruiser for provisions, ammunition, and carbines; the men were already armed with revolvers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When the youth had been dispatched with the note, Sherlock Holmes gave his instructions to the servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Strand postmark, and dispatched ten thirty-six, said Holmes, reading it over and over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I dispatched Colonel Oglesby at once with troops sufficient to compete with the reported number of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I will leave Forrest in his dispatches to tell what he did with them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From the time of leaving Cairo I was singularly unfortunate in not receiving dispatches from General Halleck. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Dispatches were sent to him the same day in conformity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It would sometimes take too long a time to make translations of intercepted dispatches for us to receive any benefit from them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This operator afterwards proved to be a rebel; he deserted his post after a short time and went south taking his dispatches with him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All of Burnside's dispatches showed the greatest confidence in his ability to hold his position as long as his ammunition held out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have just received my dispatches, and taken my farewell of Allenham; and by way of exhilaration I am now come to take my farewell of you. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This finality of Gudrun's, this dispatching of people and things in a sentence, it was all such a lie. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What with the bustle of dispatching Peepy and the bustle of getting myself ready and helping Ada, I was soon quite in a glow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He went back to the dining-room after dispatching his messenger and called for more wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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