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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, v. i.
To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of
business.
They have dispatched with Pompey. --Shak.
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che.
See {Dispatch}, v. t.] [Written also {despatch}.]
1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on
important business.
2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved
comforts. --Milton.
3. The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of
business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
Serious business, craving quick dispatch. --Shak.
To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch
through a sufficient space. --Paley.
4. 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.
5. A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern]
{Dispatch boat}, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an
advice boat.
{Dispatch box}, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for
papers and other conveniences when traveling.
Syn: Haste; hurry; promptness; celerity; speed. See {Haste}.
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\ (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Dispatched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispatching}.] [OF.
despeechier, F. d['e]p[^e]cher; prob. from pref. des- (L.
dis-) + (assumed) LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way,
fr. L. pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See {Foot}, and
cf. {Impeach}, {Despatch}.] [Written also {despatch}.]
1. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly;
to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The
business we have talked of. --Shak.
[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day
dispatcheth all the harvest work. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
2. To rid; to free. [Obs.]
I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
--Udall.
3. To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the
country . . . they perish among the lumber of
garrets. --Walpole.
4. To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending
off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special
business, and implying haste.
Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch
him to the emperor's cou??. --Shak.
5. To send out of the world; to put to death.
The company shall stone them with stones, and
dispatch them with their swords. --Ezek. xxiii.
47.
Syn: To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform;
conclude; finish; slay; kill.
資料來源 : WordNet®
dispatch
v 1: send away towards a designated goal [syn: {despatch}, {send
off}]
2: complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" [syn: {discharge},
{complete}]
3: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {hit},
{bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]
4: dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently; "He
dispatched the task he was assigned"
5: kill without delay; "the traitor was dispatched by the
conspirators"
dispatch
n 1: an official report (usually sent in haste) [syn: {despatch},
{communique}]
2: the act of sending off something [syn: {despatch}, {shipment}]
3: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done
with dispatch" [syn: {despatch}, {expedition}, {expeditiousness}]
4: killing a person or animal [syn: {despatch}]