Definition of departure

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Departure (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

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Extreme :: Extreme (n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet..
Exode :: Exode (n.) Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt..
Exit :: Exit (n.) The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part..
Decease :: Decease (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed..
Total :: Total (a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss..
Place :: Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
Falsehood :: Falsehood (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
Behind :: Behind (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death..
Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..
Parture :: Parture (n.) Departure.
Elopement :: Elopement (n.) The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation..
Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
Embargo :: Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing..
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.
Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off..
Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..
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