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DEPLOY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place troops or weapons in battle formation

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "deploy" is one way to...):

position (cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deploy"):

play (put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

deployment (the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To distribute systematically or strategically

Example:

The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "deploy" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deploy"):

redeploy (deploy anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

deployment (the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The geologist had deployed eight infrasound instruments near the volcano's crater.

(Listen to the pulse of an erupting volcano, NSF)

Due to the small size of Beagle 2 (less than 7 feet, or 2 meters across for the deployed lander) it is right at the limit of detection of HiRISE, the highest-resolution camera orbiting Mars.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)

Researchers listened to more than a year's worth of Earth's rumblings, from ambient noise to actual earthquakes, using a network of 19 ocean-bottom seismographs deployed across the Mariana Trench, along with seven island-based seismographs.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

Sound recorders make great tools for environmental assessment because they can be deployed in remote places and work autonomously for long periods.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

Following the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, two prototype FINDER devices were deployed to support search and rescue teams in the stricken areas.

(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A database and a set of APIs and tools used to create, edit, control, deploy and find common data elements (CDEs) for metadata consumers and for UML model development.

(Cancer Data Standards Repository, NCI Thesaurus)

Using marine seismic technology deployed from an ice breaker, researchers were able to reconstruct how glaciers on the Sabrina Coast have advanced and retreated over the past 50 million years.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

If the genetically modified corn can be successfully deployed, those who live in developing countries “wouldn't have to purchase methionine supplements or expensive foods that have higher methionine," Leustek said.

(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)

The Queqiao satellite is deployed about 455,000 kilometers from Earth, where it will relay communications between ground controllers and the Chang’e-4.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

A procedure performed during a percutaneous coronary intervention in which a device is deployed into the lumen of a coronary artery to expand and support the vessel wall such that the vessel remains patent and blood flow is uninhibited.

(Cardiac Stent Placement, NCI Thesaurus)