Dispatch vs Assign - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between dispatch and assign

is that dispatch is a dismissal while assign is a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

As verbs the difference between dispatch and assign

is that dispatch is to send a shipment with promptness while assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

As nouns the difference between dispatch and assign

is that dispatch is 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 while assign is an assignee.

dispatch

English

(wikipedia dispatch)

Alternative forms

* despatch (UK, Australia)

Verb

To send a shipment with promptness.

To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.

To send a journalist to a place in order to report

*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation

, passage=Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.}}

To hurry.

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

* Shakespeare

Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talked of.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

[The] harvest men almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.

To rid; to free.

* Udall

I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.

(obsolete) To deprive.

To destroy quickly and efficiently.

(computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to ).

* 2004 , Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification (page 102)

These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel

Synonyms

* destroy * kill * make haste * send

Derived terms

* dispatch table

Hyponyms

* double dispatch * multiple dispatch * single dispatch

Noun

(es)

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.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

The act of doing something quickly.

* 1661 , , 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

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things

, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}

A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.

(obsolete) A dismissal.

Derived terms

* dispatcher * dispatch case * dispatch table

assign

English

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.

(lb) To allot or give something as a task.

*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)

*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .

* (1796-1859)

*:He assigned to his men their several posts.

*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.

To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

To give (a value) to a variable.

Derived terms

* assignment * assignable * assignation

Noun

(en noun)

An assignee.

(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

* Shakespeare

Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.

English transitive verbs