Departure vs Aboard - What's the difference?
departure | aboard |
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
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
(baseball) On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
(nautical) Alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
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, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
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, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
Onto a horse.
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
* 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between departure and aboard
is that departure is (obsolete) division; separation; putting away while aboard is (obsolete) across; athwart; alongside .As a noun departure
is the act of departing or something that has departed.As an adverb aboard is
on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car .As a preposition aboard is
on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane .departure
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.”}}
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure .}}
- 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
Synonyms
* leavingAntonyms
* arrivalAnagrams
*External links
* (wikipedia "departure")aboard
English
Adverb
(-)- We all climbed aboard .
- To sling a saddle aboard .
- He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
- The office manager welcomed him aboard .
- The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
- to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We all went aboard the ship.
- Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -
