Commence vs Embark - What's the difference?
commence | embark |
To begin, start.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Oliver Goldsmith)
* , chapter=4
, title= To begin to be, or to act as.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
* Fuller
To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked , which is disquieting and fussy.
To start, begin.
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(label) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
(label) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
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*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
In transitive terms the difference between commence and embark
is that commence is to begin to be, or to act as while embark is to engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.As verbs the difference between commence and embark
is that commence is to begin, start while embark is to get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.commence
English
Verb
(commenc)- Here the anthem doth commence .
- His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- We commence judges ourselves.
- I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.
