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Definition: Dispatch |
DispatchNoun1. An official report (usually sent in haste). 2. The act of sending off something. 3. The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch". 4. The murder or execution of someone. Verb1. Send off promptly. 2. Complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties". 3. Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dispatch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | 1.An amount paid by a vessel's operator to a charterer if loading or unloading is completed in less time than stipulated in the charter agreement. 2. a message or report to a newspaper from a correspondent, or between government services such as state or military. 3. to send to a destination. (references) |
Public Administration | A message dispatched or sent with speed; esp: an important official message often in cipher sent by an officer of the diplomatic, military, or naval service of a government. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | The foreign correspondent. . . should be an effective writer, because his style contributes to the force of appeal made by his dispatches. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The shipment of Community goods and non-Community goods to a destination in another Member State. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Dispatch can be:
Emergency services are dispatched using the emergency telephone number.
Computer assisted dispatch systems are often used to schedule and prioritize the messages so that the most important or nearest job is assigned to a mobile unit.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dispatch."
Synonyms: DispatchSynonyms: communique (n), expedition (n), expeditiousness (n), shipment (n), bump off (v), complete (v), despatch (v), discharge (v), hit (v), murder (v), polish off (v), remove (v), send off (v), slay (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness; Adjective: velocity; alacrity, despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste; punctuality; (early). |
Command | Despatch, dispatch; message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions; appointment, fixture. |
Completion | Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli. |
Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word. | |
Conduct | Verb: transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; do; officiate. |
Correspondence | Noun: correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post; (messenger). |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Food | Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble. |
Haste | Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter. |
Killing | Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for. |
News | Word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy. |
Punishment | Capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging;Verb: electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries -- sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood -- the blood of our people. And now you dispatch your peacekeepers to write our destiny again (The Peacemaker; writing credit: Leslie Cockburn; Andrew Cockburn) Let me tell you something, this is not an easy job. I get a call on the radio, dispatch, it's bad news (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) With Neatness and Dispatch (1918) The Lost Dispatch (1913) Dispatch Boat Dolphin (1898) | |
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His Last Dispatch," George Neville on Morine Creek Fire. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ![]() | Medical Dispatch or : Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds With One Stone. / Rowlandson Del. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | |
![]() | "Lenine calls for return of intellectuals" News dispatch. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | By 1918 the Fruit Dispatch Company ... / S-P Eng. Co. Mil. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The St. Louis Post Dispatch building, Saint Louis, Mo. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Massaponax Church, Va. "Council of War": Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (left end of bench nearest tree) writing a dispatch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. Copy boy about to tear off dispatch coming over Associated Press. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | General Pershing cables "No other organization since the world began has ever done such great constructive work with the efficiency, dispatch and understanding, often under adverse circumstances, than has been done in France by American Red Cross in the l. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Squeal; rev; high-speed; rushing; bustle; celerity; commotion; dash; dispatch; drive; expedition; expeditiousness; flurry; haste; precipitance; precipitateness; precipitation; promptitude; push; quickness; rush; rustle; scurry; speediness; swiftness; urge. | Dispatch; communicate; alert; . | ||
| Squeal; rev; high-speed; rushing; bustle; celerity; commotion; dash; dispatch; drive; expedition; expeditiousness; flurry; haste; precipitance; precipitateness; precipitation; promptitude; push; quickness; rush; rustle; scurry; speediness; swiftness; urge. | |||
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Aldus Manutius | Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. |
Niccolo Machiavelli | Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And of Caligula, that he openly declared, that he would be no longer a head to the people or senate, and that he had it in his thoughts to cut off the worthiest men of both ranks, and then retire to Alexandria: and he wisht that the people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them all at a blow, Such designs as these, when any king harbours in his thoughts, and seriously promotes, he immediately gives up all care and thought of the common-wealth; and consequently forfeits the power of governing his subjects, as a master does the dominion over his slaves whom he hath abandoned. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The French State shall enjoy complete liberty with respect to the distribution, dispatch and sale prices of-the products of the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries. (reference) |
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Are you now going to dispatch this thing |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The dispatch came from court about the time we expected |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Company's dispatch center for this service is located at the Chernobyl nuclear station. (references) | |
At this point Orbcomm Ukraine is implementing a number of pilot projects including a fully functional dispatch service for transport companies, transmission of telemetric information obtained at nuclear stations located in Ukraine and tracking of freight for these stations (including Chernobyl). (references) | ||
Children | Korea | In July the Government enacted a revised Child Protection Law that mandates the establishment of a child abuse hot line and the dispatch of trained personnel to take preliminary measures for the protection of an abused child. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Malawi | The Dispatch newspaper was not published after the arrests. (references) |
Malawi | In May a journalist, a printer, and four newspaper vendors were arrested for distributing an edition of The Dispatch newspaper, which contained articles that the Government stated would "cause public fear and alarm." The paper reported on a plot to impeach President Muluzi and allegations of government corruption made by the opposition. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | The National Dispatch Center (NDC), which includes eight regional dispatch centers, controls the stability in the energy grid. (references) |
Armenia | Opportunities may exist for the procurement of dispatch systems, cables, transformers, household electricity meters, and other related equipment. (references) | |
Pakistan | WAPDA's shareholding is to be transferred to the Government of Pakistan, who will offer all but the National Transmission and Dispatch Company for privatization. (references) | |
Trade | Dominican Rep | Shipments may be dispatched in four hours when using Express Dispatch. (references) |
Switzerland | A surety or financial deposit is required for transit covered by a bond note or transit through the EU covered by a T1/T2 dispatch declaration. (references) | |
South Africa | Generally, the SARB's Exchange Control Department does not provide foreign exchange in payment of imports prior to the date of shipment or dispatch of goods to South Africa. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | It is advisable to call ahead to a reputable taxi company for radio dispatch for personal security as well as to avoid overcharges. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The measures of defense authorized by existing laws have been pursued with the zeal and activity due to so important an object, and with all the dispatch practicable in so extensive and great an undertaking. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | After a long passage the promised dispatch vessel arrived. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Our earnest wish is that the work of this commission go forward carefully and thoroughly, but with the greatest dispatch. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Here in the Congress you can demonstrate effective legislative leadership by discharging the public business with clarity and dispatch, voting each important proposal up, or voting it down, but at least bringing it to a fair and a final vote. |
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| "Dispatch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.09% of the time. "Dispatch" is used about 281 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.09% | 211 | 20,883 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.3% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.98% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.63% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 281 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Dispatch Management Services Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "dispatch": centralized dispatch ♦ Dispatch boat ♦ Dispatch box ♦ dispatch case ♦ dispatch clerk ♦ dispatch counter ♦ dispatch department ♦ dispatch form ♦ dispatch goods ♦ dispatch note ♦ dispatch office ♦ dispatch rider ♦ dispatch service ♦ happy dispatch ♦ incorrect dispatch ♦ pneumatic dispatch ♦ prepare for dispatch ♦ with all possible dispatch ♦ with dispatch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dispatch": dispatch-boat, dispatch-case, dispatch-riders, dispatch-station. | |
Containing "dispatch": Hammer-the-dispatch-box-major. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
st louis post dispatch | 4,015 | daily dispatch henderson | 97 |
richmond times dispatch | 2,879 | dispatch gilroy | 95 |
columbus dispatch | 2,838 | casa dispatch grande | 85 |
dispatch | 1,044 | dispatch music | 85 |
post dispatch | 571 | desert dispatch | 84 |
dispatch herald | 566 | dispatch software | 84 |
brainerd daily dispatch | 328 | dispatch herald huntington | 80 |
dispatch lyrics | 321 | st louis post dispatch newspaper | 79 |
dispatch news valley | 292 | classifieds columbus dispatch | 76 |
saint louis post dispatch | 238 | cordele dispatch | 68 |
dispatch york | 183 | band dispatch | 68 |
dispatch times | 179 | dispatch moline | 65 |
st louis dispatch | 171 | dispatch post stl | 64 |
dispatch observer | 165 | dispatch news | 63 |
brainerd dispatch | 159 | columbus dispatch.com | 62 |
city dispatch michigan news | 157 | dispatch hearld | 58 |
utica observer dispatch | 129 | st louis post dispatch classifieds | 54 |
dispatch lexington | 128 | dispatch guitar tab | 53 |
daily dispatch | 118 | oneida daily dispatch | 51 |
dispatch tab | 114 | dispatch lexington nc | 49 |
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| Language | Translations for "dispatch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beklink (conclude, expedite, finish, settle), afwikkel (conclude, expedite, finish, liquidate, settle, unroll, unwind, wind off), afsend (dismiss, send off, ship, turn away). (various references) | |
Albanian | dërgim (consignment, despatch, expedition, remittance, sending, shipment), dërgoj (cable, consign, delegate, deliver, despatch, detach, direct, refer, relegate, send, send off, set forth, set off, transmit), largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), bëj shpejt (despatch, expedite, tear off), ha (chamfer, consume, demolish, despatch, eat, eat away, elide, erode, feed, ingest, shark), heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, doff, dump, make away with oneself, put off), i jap duart (despatch), i jap goditjen e fundit (despatch), agjenci transporti mallrash (despatch), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, commit, despatch, discharge, do, effect, effectuate, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through, wage), vrasje (battue, despatch, homicide, kill, killing, murder, sleep), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, despatch, die, do, drink up, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, perish, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up), mesazh (cable, despatch, message), nis (begin, break, bring, commence, despatch, enter, enter on, get, get round, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, send, send on, start, take up), nisje (blastoff, commencement, departure, despatch, farewell, initiation, lift off, offset, outset, parting, sailing, start), njoftim (advertisement, announcement, annunciation, banns, blurb, cry, data, despatch, information, knowledge, message, news, note, notice, notification, placard, proclamation, report, service, tidings, tip off), përzë (cut out, despatch, Hunt, oust), shpejtësi (career, celerity, despatch, flow, haste, legerity, lick, momentum, pace, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, tearing hurry, velocity), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), informacion (data, despatch, dope, information, inquiry, light, material). (various references) | |
Arabic | قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), وفد (delegation, deputation, despatch, legation, mission, send, send off), سرعة (alacrity, blast, career, despatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), إيفاد (despatch, send off), إنجاز (accomplishment, achievement, despatch, execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, implementing, performance, realization), إرسال (despatch, expedition, posting, radio, send, send off, sending away, signalling, transmission), أعدم (be executed, despatch, execute, guillotine, hang out, put to death, shoot, string up, swing), أرسل قوات (despatch), أرسل بسرعة (despatch, rush), رسالة إخبراية (despatch), رسالة (bill, brief, despatch, epistle, letter, message, mission, missive, tractate, treatise, writing), بعث (bundle, cast, despatch, forward, hand, hand over, mission, reanimate, recall, regenerate, regeneration, renaissance, restoration, resurrect, resurrection, rise, risen, rising, send, send in, telegram), برقية (cable, cablegram, despatch, telegram, telegraph, wire). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убиване (killing), телеграма (aerogram, telegram), комюнике (communique, press release, release), официално съобщение (communique), отпращане, отправям (channel, direct, extend, forward, put up, send, transmit, turn), ликвидиране (removal, wind up, winding up), бързина (agility, celerity, expedition, fastness, haste, hastiness, lick, precipitance, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, readiness, speed, swiftness), пращам на оня свят, пращам (relegate, send, ship off), изяждам бързо, извършвам бързо, изпращане (delegation, despatch, send off, shipment), изпращам (consign, delegate, deliver, dismiss, get off, pack off, relegate, see, see off, send, send off, send on, send out, ship, wing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 調度 (dispatcher), 遣 , 特派 , ' (document), 檄 (order), 急件, 派遣 (send), 派出 (send). (various references) | |
Czech | depeše (despatch), zpráva (account, advice, call, communication, despatch, intimation, item, message, news, notice, report, statement, tidings, word), vyslat (depute, deputize, despatch, send, send forth), vypravit (despatch, fit out, pack off), sprovodit ze svìta (despatch), rychlost (celerity, despatch, gear, pace, quickness, rapidity, speed, speediness, swiftness, tempo, velocity), rychle odbýt (despatch), pohotovost (alert, aptitude, despatch, readiness, trim), odpravit (despatch, destroy, put to death), odeslat (despatch, draw out, forward, remit, send, send off, transmit), odeslání (despatch, remittance), expedovat (consign, despatch), expedice (despatch, despatch department, dispatch department). (various references) | |
Danish | afsende (dismiss, send off, ship, turn away). (various references) | |
Dutch | verzenden (dismiss, send, send off, ship, transmit, turn away). (various references) | |
Esperanto | depeŝi, findecidi (compose, conclude, settle), finaranĝi (conclude, expedite, finnish, settle), ekspedi (send off, ship). (various references) | |
Faeroese | avgreiða (send off, ship). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرستادن (Forward, Issue, Pack, Refer, Send, Ship), پیغام (Errand, Message, Word), مخابره کردن (Wire), کشتن (Administer, Amortize, Butcher, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Murder, Out, Rat, Smite), گسیل کردن , گسیل داشتن (Send), گسیل , انجام سریع , اعزام داشتن (Send), ارسال (Address, Consignment, Transmission, Transmittal), روانه کردن (Dismiss, Hale, Launch, Send), شتاب (Haste, Hurry, Hustle, Pelt, Speed, Tilt, Velocity). (various references) | |
Finnish | toimitus (ceremony, delivery, editorial office, editorial staff, execution, function, performing), laivata (ship), lähetys (consignment, mission, transmission), lähettää (consign, forward, pass on, remit, send, send off, send on, transmit), karttapäätös (mail). (various references) | |
French | expédier (to dispatch), dépêche. (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfstjoere (dismiss, send off, ship, turn away), ôfhannelje (conclude, expedite, finish, liquidate, settle). (various references) | |
German | versand (distribution, forwarding, shipment, shipping), expedieren (expedite, forward, send off, ship), abfertigen (attend to, check in, clear, deal with, prepare for dispatch, process, send off, service, ship, to dispatch). (various references) | |
Greek | μήνυμα (communication, despatch, message, missive), φονεύω (despatch, destroy, kill, murder, slaughter, slay, slew), επισπεύδω (accelerate, despatch, expedite, hasten, hie, hurry, precipitate, railroad, speed), επιστολή (despatch, epistle, letter, missive), επίσπευση (acceleration), άγγελμα (announcement, annunciation, despatch, message), αποστέλλω (consign, depurate, despatch, send, send off for, ship), ταχυδρομική αποστολή (mail), διακανονισμός αβαρίας (adjustment of average, average adjustment, average statement). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשלח (deliver, dismiss, drive out, launch, release, send off), לש'ר (send, send off, ship), תש"ורת (broadcast, communication, despatch, message), שליח" (sending), ש'ור (consignment, current, dispatching, fluent, launching, send off, sending), א'רת (deed, despatch, document, edict, epistle, letter, lettercard, missive, note, writ). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jelentés (application, application report, connotation, denotation, despatch, import, meaning, memorandum, purport, report, sense, significance), intézkedés (action, arrangements, despatch, dispose, disposition, measure, ordination, provision, purview), eligazítás (brief, briefing, despatch, detail, orientation). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengiriman (emission, transit, transmission), pemberangkatan (departure, sendding off, sendoff), memberangkatkan (send), kabar (message, news, report, tidings). (various references) | |
Italian | dispaccio (despatch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 送" (conveyance, delivery, serving), 発信 (transmission), ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss), 急送 , 急派 , 派遣 (send), 派遣 (send), 依 (commission, request), 依 (commission, dependence, request, trust), 差遣 (sending). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ディスパッチ , そうたつ (conveyance, delivery, serving), きゅうそう, きゅうは (conservative people, old school, old style, the old school), さけ" (sending), いらい (commission, dependence, henceforth, request, since, trust), はっし" (departure, eruption, oscillation, rash, takeoff, transmission), はけ" (hegemony, send). (various references) | |
Korean | 파견 (Delegating, Despatch, Detaching, Dispatching). (various references) | |
Manx | marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), cur magh (board out, deal, delegate, delegation, dispensation, dispense, displace, edition, eject, ejection, emission, emit, evacuate, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, run out, turn out), cooilleeney dy tappee, chaghteraght (commission, commission message, communications, deputation, embassy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rapport, ekspedere, avsendelse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ispatchday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | expedição (delivery, despatch, expedition, ploy, sending, shipment, shipping, transport), expedir (despatch, emit, expedite, forward, issue, send, ship), despachar (bill, book, cashier, despatch, expedite, forward, freight, send, send off, ship, speed). (various references) | |
Romanian | depeşã (telegram, wire), omorâre, activa (accelerate, act, activate, actuate, expedite, facilitate, hasten, stimulate, work), concluziona (compose, conclude, settle), executare (carriage, death, enforcement, execution, performance, printing out, scratch, workmanship), expedia (bundle, consign to, expedite, forward, post, remit, send, ship, transmit, turn away), expediere (shipment, shipping), grabã (cursoriness, expedition, forwardness, haste, hastiness, hurry, pelt, press, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed), accelera (accelerate, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, smarten up, speed up, wing), mânca pe nerãsuflate, trimitere (delivery, reference, remittance, sending), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture), promptitudine (enterprise, expedience, expediency, expedition, forwardness, promptitude, readiness), rapiditate (fastness, rapidity, speed, swiftness), rezolva (clinch, compound, do, expedite, piece up, resolve, settle, solve), rezolvare promptã, telegramã (cable, telegram, wire), trimite (direct, expedite, forward, march away, march out, refer, remit, send, ship, transmit), lichida repede. (various references) | |
Russian | официальное донесение (despatch), отправка (despatch, shipment), быстрота (agileness, agility, celerity, despatch, expedition, legerity, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rate, speed, swiftness, velocity), посылать отправка, посылать (bunt, delegate, despatch, refer, send, sends, sent, tender, transmit), депеша (despatch, message). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | depeša (despatch, telegram), poslati (consign, consign to, forward, get off, relay, remit, send, set forth, ship), pogubljenje (despatch, execution), pogubiti (despatch, execute, put to death), otpremiti (despatch, relegate, ship), otpremanje (despatch, relegation, shipping), obaveštenje (information, message, notification, tip). (various references) | |
Spanish | despachar (attend to, conclude, despatch, dismiss, dispose of, expedite, finish, sack, see to, send, send off, serve, settle, ship, toss off, transmit, turn away), expedir (abandon, abdicate, deal with, dismiss, draw up, expedite, give up, issue, leave, make out, register, send, send away, send off, ship, ship off, turn away), enviar (consign, despatch, dismiss, envoy, extend, forward, remit, send, send away, send off, ship, tap out, transmit, turn away), despacho (chamber, clearance, demand, den, despatch, office, place of business, sale, shop, study). (various references) | |
Swedish | expediera (attend to, execute, expedite, forward, mail, post, send off, serve, settle), depesch, avsända (despatch, post, posting, send off), avfärda (discharge, dismiss, send off, waive). (various references) | |
Turkish | sevk (Conn, consignment, driving, expedition, forwarding, sending), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), acele (bustle, discomposedly, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), göndermek (address, bundle off, conjure away, consign, expedite, forward, freight, order away, refer, relegate, remit, route, send, send away, send forth, send off, send out, ship, ship off, transmit), hız (bat, career, celerity, expedition, haste, impetus, lick, pace, pelt, quickness, raciness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tilt, velocity), halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), harekât raporu (dispatches), idam (execution, hatchet job), öldürme (destruction, kill, killing, manslaughter, murder, putting to death), mesaj (communication, message, purpose), yollamak (convey, expedite, forward, order away, send, send forth, send off, send out, ship off, transmit), sevk etmek (consign, forward, route, send, urge), sevketmek (carry, consign, forward, guide, propel, quarterback, refer, route, send, urge), silip süpürmek (clean out, gobble, gobble up, mop up, polish off, punish, put away, sweep), telgraf çekme, telgraf çekmek (cable, wire), yalayıp yutmak (devour, gobble, gobble up, lap, punish, wolf, wolf down), yollama, idam etmek (execute, gibbet, put to death). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ekspedisiяa (r) (dispatch office, expedition). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | справитися (cope, cope with, manage), розрахуватися, швидкість (agility, celerity, fastness, gait, legerity, lightness, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, speed, swiftness, tempo, velocity), відправлення, врегулювання, посилати (address, delegate, forward, order, refer, send, send for), депеша. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sai phái đi sự đánh chết tươi (despatch), sự khẩn trương (despatch), sự khử (despatch), sự kết liễu cuộc đời sự giải quyết nhanh gọn (despatch), sự giết đi (despatch), bản thông báo hãng vận tải h ng hoá (despatch). (various references) | |
Welsh | bryslythyr, anfon (send, transmit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u . . . us. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | celeritate, celeritatem, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, epistula, epistulae, epistulam, epistularum, epistulas, epistulis, misi, mitto, mitto, misi, missum, pedica, praemitto. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | despacher. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 23, Verse 47 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai liqobolhson ep' autaV liqoiV oclwn kai katakentei autaV en toiV xifesin autwn uiouV autwn kai qugateraV autwn apoktenousi kai touV oikouV autwn emprhsousin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et lapidentur lapidibus populorum et confodiantur gladiis eorum filios et filias earum interficient et domos earum igne succendent |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And be thei stonyd with stoonys of puplis, and be thei doluen with swerdis of hem. Thei shulen sle the sones and douytris of hem, and thei shulen brenne with fier the housis of hem. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 23, Verse 47 |
| Cebuano | Ug sila pagabatoon sa katilingban, ug pamatyon sila sa ilang mga espada; pamatyon nila ang ilang mga anak ng alalake ug mga anak nga babaye, ug pagasunogon ang ilang mga balay sa kalayo. |
| Croatian | Zbor neka ih kamenuje i maèevima raskomada; sinove i kæeri neka im pokolje, a domove ognjem spali. |
| Danish | Forsamlingen skal stene dem og hugge dem sønder og sammen med Sværd; deres Sønner og Døtre skal man dræbe, og deres Huse skal man brænde. |
| Dutch | En de vergadering zal ze met stenen stenigen, en dezelve met hun zwaarden nederhouwen; haar zonen en haar dochteren zullen zij doden, en haar huizen met vuur verbranden. |
| Finnish | Ja kansanjoukko kivittäköön heidät ja hakatkoon kappaleiksi miekoillansa; tappakoot ne heidän poikansa ja tyttärensä ja polttakoot heidän talonsa tulella. |
| French | Cette multitude les lapidera, Et les abattra coups d`épée; On tuera leurs fils et leurs filles, On brûlera leurs maisons par le feu. |
| German | daß die Leute sie steinigen und mit ihren Schwertern erstechen und ihre Söhne und Töchter erwürgen und ihre Häuser mit Feuer verbrennen. |
| Hungarian | És kövezze meg õket a gyülekezet, és vagdalják össze õket fegyvereikkel; fiaikat és leányaikat öljék meg, és házaikat tûzzel égessék meg. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Biarlah mereka dilempari dengan batu dan diserang dengan pedang. Biarlah anak-anak mereka dibantai dan rumah-rumah mereka dibakar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka perhimpunan itu akan merajamkan dia dengan batu, dan memarangkan dia dengan pedang, dan dibunuhnya akan segala anak-anaknya laki-laki dan perempuan dan dibakarnya habis akan segala rumahnya dengan api. |
| Italian | La folla le lapider e le far a pezzi con le spade; ne uccider i figli e le figlie e dar alle fiamme le case. |
| Maori | A ka akina raua e te hui ki te kohatu, ka tapahia ki a ratou hoari; ka whakamatea a raua tama, a raua tamahine, ka tahuna ano o raua whare ki te ahi. |
| Norwegian | Og folkeskaren skal stene dem og hugge dem sønder med sine sverd; deres sønner og døtre skal de slå ihjel, og deres hus skal de brenne op med ild. |
| Portuguese | E a hoste apedrejá-las-á, e as matará espada; trucidará a seus filhos e suas filhas, e queimará as suas casas a fogo. |
| Rumanian | Adunarea le va ucide cu pietre, wi le va dobork cu lovituri de sabie; le vor ucide fiii wi fiicele lor, wi le vor arde casele cu foc. |
| Spanish | La asamblea las apedreará y con sus espadas las eliminará. Matarán a sus hijos y a sus hijas, e incendiarán sus casas con fuego.' |
| Swedish | Och församlingen skall stena dem och hugga dem i stycken med svärd, och dräpa deras söner och döttrar, och bränna upp deras hus i eld. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dispatch": dispatched, dispatcher, dispatchers, dispatches, dispatching. (additional references) | |
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"Dispatch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adrspatch, Diesbach, Diparch, dispatche, dispatcxh, dispect, disptch, Dizapac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dispatch" (pronounced di'spa"kh) |
| 3 | -p a" kh | patch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-i-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: spathic. | |
-2 letters: aphids, capsid, dicast, haptic, phasic, phatic. | |
-3 letters: acids, adits, aitch, aphid, aphis, apish, asdic, aspic, cadis, caids, caphs, chads, chaps, chapt, chats, chias, chips, chits, dashi, dicta, ditas, ditch, hadst, pacts, padis, patch, paths, picas, pitas, pitch, piths, saith, sapid, spahi, spait, spica, staid, staph, stich, tachs, tapis, tsadi. | |
-4 letters: acid, acts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: cadetship. | |
+2 letters: cadetships, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatches, mispatched. | |
+3 letters: despatching, diastrophic, dispatchers, dispatching, feldspathic. | |
+4 letters: diaphoretics, dictatorship, orthopaedics, phosphatidic. | |
+5 letters: cardiopathies, custodianship, dictatorships, dodecaphonist, sophisticated. | |
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