departure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: departures
Etymology: From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: The departure was scheduled for noon.
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: But the outstanding feature of the new timetable arrangement, additional to the standardised departure times, is the number of intermediate points, in addition to such principal cities as Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff and Birmingham, that now have departures for Paddington at the same minutes past the hour throughout the day.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:
text: Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure.
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The act of departing or something that has departed.
examples: text: any departure from a national standard
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
text: There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
glosses: A deviation from a plan or procedure.
examples: text: The time of my departure is at hand.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:6:
text: His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: A death.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
examples: text: The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
topics: law
glosses: The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
examples: text: no other remedy […] but absolute departure
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Division; separation; putting away.
Synonyms: leaving
exit
Derived terms: departure gate
departure lounge
departure tax
departure time
estimated time of departure
hold-departure order
nondeparture
point of departure
postdeparture
predeparture
time of departure
Related terms: depart