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Egress vs Digress - What's the difference?

egress | digress |

In intransitive terms the difference between egress and digress

is that egress is to exit or leave; to go or come out while digress is to turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

As a noun egress

is an exit or way out.

egress

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) + gressus

Noun

(es)
  • An exit or way out.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress .
  • * (1810-1891) (used by him to hurry customers out of his side show)
  • *:Right this way to the Egress !
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • The process of exiting or leaving.
  • *2003 , International Building Code (IBC), Chapter 10 section 1001.1 :
  • *:Buildings or portions thereof shall be provided with a means of egress system as required this chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall control the design, construction and arrangement of means egress components required to provide an approved means of egress from structures and portions thereof.
  • (lb) The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.
    • Synonyms
    * (exit) exit, way out, outgang * (process of exiting) departure, exit, exiting, leaving
    Antonyms
    * (exit) entrance, ingress, way in,regress * (process of exiting) entering, entrance

    Etymology 2

    * From (etyl) egressum, past participle egredi.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To exit or leave; to go or come out.
    • Synonyms
    * (exit) come out, depart, exit, go out, leave
    Antonyms
    * (exit) come in, enter, go in English heteronyms

    digress

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
  • * Holland
    • Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
  • * John Locke
    • In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
  • * {{quote-song
    • , year = 1959 , title = In Old Mexico , composer = (Tom Lehrer) , passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .) }}
  • To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.

    Synonyms

    * (turn from the course of argument) sidetrack

    Related terms

    * digression * digressive * excursive