(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(2) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(3) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(4) Traoré had added a fifth before Andros Townsend dispatched a consolation from distance, though that meant little.
(5) Rouhani said on Saturday that Iran had never dispatched any forces to Iraq and it was very unlikely it ever would, but Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was in Baghdad last week to give advice to Maliki.
(6) Results of the model applied to several planning data sets (including a form of the Austin, Texas planning problem) demonstrate that more concentrated ambulance allocation patterns exist which may lead to easier dispatching, reduced facility costs, and better crew load balancing with little or no loss of service coverage.
(7) In what was widely seen as a vote of low confidence in the Eulex inquiry, the EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, announced in Brussels this week that she would dispatch an independent legal expert to oversee its progress.
(8) Frozen aliquots of each sample were dispatched to each of the laboratories, where the aliquots were assayed using the same one-stage, two-stage and chromogenic methods.
(9) The dispatch center is announcing a rescue unit transporting a heavy injured casualty.
(10) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
(11) The median duration of the dispatching phase was about 2 hours when only one doctor intervened and 4 h, 35 min when a second doctor was consulted.
(12) Two days later, another letter was dispatched to Blears, this time from Hank Dittmar, the chief executive of the foundation and an aide to the prince.
(13) Humanitarian organisations also help with rescues at sea, which often occur when smugglers dispatch a dozen or more boats when seas are calm.
(14) So said the Dispatches programme’s author and presenter, Fraser Nelson , who also happens to be editor of the Spectator during what is turning out to be one of its more ideological phases – as distinct from the High Tory scepticism of many decades.
(15) Prompt identification of cardiac arrest by emergency dispatchers can save valuable time and increase the likelihood of successful resuscitation.
(16) Woods was stripped of his editorship of the Daily Dispatch newspaper and banned from public speaking because of his investigation into the death of black activist Steve Biko in 1977.
(17) In fact, it was the Tories who were quietly prevailing on this front: Grant Shapps, the Tory chairman, had organised a “team 2015” force of 100,000 volunteers, loosely modelled on the London 2012 Games Makers , dispatched to 100 key locations on “Super Saturdays”.
(18) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(19) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(20) Last week Obama said he would dispatch 300 special forces to help train Iraq's army, but said they would not have a direct combat role.
Refer
Definition:
(v. t.) To carry or send back.
(v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.
(v. t.) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
(v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
(v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
(v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.
Example Sentences:
(1) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(2) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
(3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(4) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(5) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
(6) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
(7) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(8) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(9) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
(10) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
(11) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(12) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(13) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(14) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(15) It is usually referred to as an aminopeptidase inhibitor.
(16) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.
(17) In the course of its history, psychiatry has grown richer parallel to the development of its spatiotemporal system of the reference.
(18) Developmental changes are delineated, with particular reference to recent work on the ovine blood-brain barrier.
(19) Compared with the reference compounds, brotizolam induced the weakest degree of physical dependence.
(20) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.