departure
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- (British) IPA: /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/, /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
departure
- The act of departing or something that has departed.
- The departure was scheduled for noon.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.”
A deviation from a plan or procedure. - 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 ↗:
- any departure from a national standard
- There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
- (euphemism) A death.
- 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 ↗:
- His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
- (navigation) 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.
- (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
- The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
- (legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
- (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
- 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 ↗:
- no other remedy […] but absolute departure
- French: départ
- German: Abfahrt, (voyage) Abreise, (flight) Abflug
- Italian: partenza
- Portuguese: partida
- Russian: отправле́ние
- Spanish: salida, partida
- French: déviation
- German: Verlassen
- Italian: deviazione, punto di svolta
- Portuguese: desvio
- Russian: уклоне́ние
- German: Sterben, Dahinscheiden
- Italian: dipartenza, dipartita, morte, trapasso
- Portuguese: óbito
- Russian: кончи́на
- Spanish: partida
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