What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Embark vs Arrive - What's the difference?

embark | arrive |

As verbs the difference between embark and arrive

is that embark is to get on a boat or ship or (outside the usa) an aeroplane while arrive is .

embark

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked , which is disquieting and fussy.
  • To start, begin.
  • :
  • (label) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
  • (label) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
  • :
  • *(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • *:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
  • Antonyms

    * disembark

    Derived terms

    * disembarcation * disembarkee

    arrive

    English

    Verb

  • (copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
  • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
  • To obtain a level of success or fame.
  • * 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
  • Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
  • To come; said of time.
  • The time has arrived for us to depart.
  • To happen or occur.
  • * Waller
  • Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
  • (archaic) To reach; to come to.
  • * Milton
  • Ere he arrive the happy isle.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
  • * Tennyson
  • Arrive at last the blessed goal.
  • (obsolete) To bring to shore.
  • * Chapman
  • and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

    Usage notes

    * Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

    Antonyms

    * depart