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Departure vs Despatch - What's the difference?

departure | despatch |

As nouns the difference between departure and despatch

is that departure is the act of departing or something that has departed while despatch is (see also wikipedia's ).

As a verb despatch is

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departure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of departing or something that has departed.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=5 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.”}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= 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 .}}
  • A deviation from a plan or procedure.
  • * Prescott
    • any departure from a national standard
  • (euphemism) A death.
  • * Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6
    • The time of my departure is at hand.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
  • (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.
    • (Bouvier)
  • (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
  • * Milton
    • no other remedy but absolute departure

    Synonyms

    * leaving

    Antonyms

    * arrival

    Related terms

    * depart * departure lounge * departure tax

    Anagrams

    *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "departure")

    despatch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (see also Wikipedia's )
  • * 1843 , , The Conquest of Mexico , Volume 1, 1957, page 31,
    • The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of a hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station,.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch -case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}

    Verb

    (es)
  • *1833 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 8-9, page 31,
  • *:She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}