Depart vs Travel - What's the difference?
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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.
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*: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.
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*: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.
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:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A going away; departure.
* Shakespeare
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
(basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
To travel throughout (a place).
To force to journey.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To labour; to travail.
The act of traveling.
(p) A series of journeys.
(p) An account of one's travels.
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
(obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
Depart is a related term of travel.
As nouns the difference between depart and travel
is that depart is departure, start while travel is the act of traveling.As verbs the difference between depart and travel
is that depart is third-person singular indicative present of while travel is to be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.depart
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Verb
(en verb)- Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.
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) leaveAntonyms
* (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conformNoun
- The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .
- At my depart for France.
Anagrams
*travel
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Alternative forms
* travellVerb
- I like to travel .
- Soundwaves can travel through water.
- I’ve travelled the world.
- They shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises.
- (Hooker)
Synonyms
* fare, journeyDerived terms
* (l), (l)Noun
- space travel
- travel to Spain
- I’m off on my travels around France again.
- There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
- My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.