Dispatch vs. Release — What's the Difference?

Send off to a destination or for a purpose

To set free from confinement or bondage

Deal with (a task or opponent) quickly and efficiently

To set free from physical restraint or binding; let go

The sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose

To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement

An official report on state or military affairs

To make available for use

The killing of someone or something

To set free from obligations, commitments, or debt

To relegate to a specific destination or send on specific business.

To relieve of care or suffering

A written message, particularly an official communication, sent with speed.

To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution

An important message sent by a diplomat or an officer in the armed forces.

To make known or available

A news item sent to a news organization, as by a correspondent.

(Law) To surrender (a right, claim, or title).

(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.

Deliverance or liberation, as from confinement.

(transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.

Discharge from an obligation or commitment.

(transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.

Relief from suffering or care.

(transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.

An unfastening or letting go, as of something caught or held fast.

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

(Sports) The action of throwing a ball or propelling a puck

(transitive) To rid; to free.

(Linguistics) The movement of a vocal organ or organs so as to end the closure of a stop consonant.

(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.

A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism.

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

The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution.

To hurry.

Something thus issued

To deprive.

The condition of being available, in use, or in publication

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.

The surrender of a right, title, or claim, especially to one against whom the right, title, or claim would be enforced or exercised.

The act of doing something quickly.

The document attesting to such surrender.

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

The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).

(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.

(software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.

(obsolete) A dismissal.

Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).

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

That which is released, untied or let go.

To rid; to free.

(legal) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.

To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

Liberation from pain or suffering.

To send off or away; - particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

(biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.

To send out of the world; to put to death.

The act or manner of ending a sound.

To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.

The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.

The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.

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.

The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken

A message transmitted by telegraph.

Orgasm.

An official report (usually sent in haste)

(music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.

The act of sending off something

To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

The property of being prompt and efficient;

To make available to the public.

Killing a person or animal

To free or liberate; to set free.

Send away towards a designated goal

To discharge.

Complete or carry out;

(telephone) of a call To hang up.

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

(legal) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently;

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.

Kill without delay;

(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity

(biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.

(intransitive) to come out; be out.

(transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.

To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.

The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.

Relief from care, pain, or any burden.

Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.

A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required;

The act or manner of ending a sound.

In the block-signaling system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.

Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film);

The act of liberating someone or something

A process that liberates or discharges something;

An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Euphemistic expressions for death;

A legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

Activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion;

The act of allowing a fluid to escape

A formal written statement of relinquishment

(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

Release, as from one's grip;

Grant freedom to; free from confinement

Let (something) fall or spill a container;

Eliminate (substances) from the body

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;

Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids;

Make (information) available publication;

Part with a possession or right;

Make (assets) available;