Embark vs Embarge - What's the difference?
embark | embarge |
To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
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*: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.
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(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.
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*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
To put in a barge.
To board a barge; to embark.
* 1843 , Frederick William Fairholt, Lord Mayors' Pageants , page 152
(rare) An embargo.
* 1979 , Westel Woodbury Willoughby,
In transitive terms the difference between embark and embarge
is that embark is to engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair while embarge is to put in a barge.As verbs the difference between embark and embarge
is that embark is to get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane while embarge is to put in a barge.As a noun embarge is
an embargo.embark
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(en verb)Antonyms
* disembarkDerived terms
* disembarcation * disembarkeeembarge
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(embarg)- [...] where the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and their attendants take barge; also the Grocers Company do likewise embarge , [...].
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* imposeNoun
(en noun)Japan's Case Examined, page 174
- This embarge is termed a moral one because it imposes no legal restraints upon would-be exporters, for there are no statutes providing for this.