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Egress vs Theater - What's the difference?

egress | theater |

As nouns the difference between egress and theater

is that egress is an exit or way out while theater is a place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

As a verb egress

is to exit or leave; to go or come 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

    theater

    English

    Alternative forms

    * theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries except the USA)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
  • A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
    • His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
  • A lecture theatre.
  • (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
    • This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
  • (US) A cinema.
    • We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
  • Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
    • I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.

    Usage notes

    * The spelling (theatre) is the main spelling in British English, with (theater) being rare. * In United States English, (theater) accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.

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