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Depart vs Outgoer - What's the difference?

depart | outgoer |

As nouns the difference between depart and outgoer

is that depart is departure, start while outgoer is one who or that which goes out or departs.

As a verb depart

is third-person singular indicative present of .

depart

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To leave.
  • *Shakespeare
  • *:He which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart .
  • *2009 , George Monbiot, The Guardian , 7 September:
  • *:The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."
  • To set out on a journey.
  • *:
  • *:And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne
  • To die.
  • *Bible, Luke ii. 29:
  • *:Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
  • To deviate (from).
  • :His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
  • :to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
  • *Madison
  • *:if the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles
  • To go away from; to leave.
  • *Bible, 1 Sam. iv. 2:
  • *:The glory is departed from Israel.
  • *2009 , The Guardian , Sport Blog, 9 September:
  • *:The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.
  • (obsolete) To divide up; to distribute, share.
  • *:
  • *:and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
  • (obsolete) To separate, part.
  • *:
    • Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.
  • :(Shakespeare)

    • Synonyms

    * (to leave) duck out, go, go away, leave, part, pull up stakes, start, start out, set forth, split, set off, set out, take off, take leave, quit * (to die) die * (to deviate) deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary * (to go away from) leave

    Antonyms

    * (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conform

    Related terms

    * departure * dearly departed

    Noun

  • (obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .
  • (obsolete) A going away; departure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • At my depart for France.

    Anagrams

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    outgoer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which goes out or departs.
  • * 1850 , George Wingrove Cooke, A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Agricultural Tenancies , page 49,
    • This tenancy necessitates the most complicated arrangements to dovetail the interests of the incomer and outgoer .
  • * 1996 , George P. Moschis, Gerontographics: Life-stage Segmentation for Marketing Strategy Development , page 76,
    • Also, a larger percentage of ailing outgoers than frail recluses would consider rebates.
  • * 2014 , Barrett O'Neill, The Geometry of Kerr Black Holes , page 86,
    • Then there exists a unique outgoer and unique ingoer (up to parametrization) through each point of Kerr-star spacetime.