Arrive vs Departure - What's the difference?
arrive | departure |
(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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To obtain a level of success or fame.
* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
The act of departing or something that has departed.
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, title= A deviation from a plan or procedure.
* Prescott
(euphemism) A death.
* Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6
* Sir Philip Sidney
(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.
(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.
* Milton
As a verb arrive
is to reach; to get to a certain place.As a noun departure is
the act of departing or something that has departed.arrive
English
Verb
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- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
Usage notes
* Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.Antonyms
* departdeparture
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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.”}}
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- any departure from a national standard
- The time of my departure is at hand.
- His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
- (Bouvier)
- no other remedy but absolute departure