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despatch
Overview of noun despatch
The noun despatch has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. dispatch, despatch, communique -- (an official report (usually sent in haste))
2. dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness -- (the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch")
3. dispatch, despatch -- (killing a person or animal)
4. dispatch, despatch, shipment -- (the act of sending off something)
Overview of verb despatch
The verb despatch has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) dispatch, despatch, send off -- (send away towards a designated goal)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun despatch
4 senses of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, communique
=> report, news report, story, account, write up
=> news
=> information, info
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
=> celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
=> pace, rate
=> temporal property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
dispatch, despatch
=> killing, kill, putting to death
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
dispatch, despatch, shipment
=> departure, going, going away, leaving
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun despatch
1 of 4 senses of despatch
Sense 4
dispatch, despatch, shipment
=> reshipment
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun despatch
4 senses of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, communique
=> report, news report, story, account, write up
Sense 2
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
=> celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
Sense 3
dispatch, despatch
=> killing, kill, putting to death
Sense 4
dispatch, despatch, shipment
=> departure, going, going away, leaving
Antonyms of noun despatch
Member Holonyms of noun despatch
Substance Holonyms of noun despatch
Part Holonyms of noun despatch
Member Meronyms of noun despatch
Substance Meronyms of noun despatch
Part Meronyms of noun despatch
1 of 4 senses of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, communique
HAS PART: dateline
Meronyms of noun despatch
1 of 4 senses of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, communique
HAS PART: dateline
Holonyms of noun despatch
Attributes of noun despatch
Derived Forms of noun despatch
1 of 4 senses of despatch
Sense 4
dispatch, despatch, shipment
RELATED TO>(verb) despatch#1
=> dispatch, despatch, send off
Domain of noun despatch
Domain Terms of noun despatch
Familiarity of noun despatch
despatch used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun despatch
4 senses of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, communique
> report, news report, story, account, write up
=> newsletter, newssheet
=> bulletin
=> dispatch, despatch, communique
=> urban legend
=> exclusive, scoop
Sense 2
dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
> celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
=> fleetness
=> immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy
=> dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
=> promptness, promptitude
Sense 3
dispatch, despatch
> killing, kill, putting to death
=> deathblow, coup de grace
=> death
=> euthanasia, mercy killing
=> homicide
=> dispatch, despatch
=> fell
=> suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
=> slaughter
=> poisoning
=> suffocation, asphyxiation
=> sacrifice, ritual killing
=> electrocution
=> decapitation, beheading
=> genocide, race murder, racial extermination
Sense 4
dispatch, despatch, shipment
> departure, going, going away, leaving
=> breaking away
=> farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting
=> French leave
=> disappearance, disappearing
=> withdrawal
=> sailing
=> boarding, embarkation, embarkment
=> exit
=> dispatch, despatch, shipment
=> takeoff
Meronyms of noun despatch
4 senses of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, communique
HAS PART: dateline
Holonyms of noun despatch
Grep of noun despatch
despatch
Antonyms of verb despatch
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb despatch
1 sense of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
=> transport, send, ship
=> move, displace
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb despatch
1 sense of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
=> bundle off
=> route
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb despatch
1 sense of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
=> transport, send, ship
'Cause To' of verb despatch
Derived Forms of verb despatch
1 sense of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
RELATED TO>(noun) despatch#4
=> dispatch, despatch, shipment
Domain of verb despatch
Domain Terms of verb despatch
Familiarity of verb despatch
despatch used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb despatch
1 sense of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s somebody PP
*> Somebody ----s something PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb despatch
1 sense of despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
> transport, send, ship
=> barge
=> railroad
=> dispatch, despatch, send off
=> forward, send on
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb despatch
Sense 1
dispatch, despatch, send off
=> transport, send, ship
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Grep of verb despatch
despatch
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