Embark vs Getup - What's the difference?
embark | getup |
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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*:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
(chiefly, US, informal) A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
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(informal) A fight or altercation.
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(publishing) Layout and production style, as of a magazine.
As a verb embark
is to get on a boat or ship or (outside the usa) an aeroplane.As a noun getup is
(chiefly|us|informal) a costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.embark
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(en verb)Antonyms
* disembarkDerived terms
* disembarcation * disembarkeegetup
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Alternative forms
* get up * get-upNoun
(en noun)- When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get–up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision.
1,200 Reading Firemen March," Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania, USA), 28 Oct. p. 4:
- The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup , received many comments for the manner in which the men marched.
Worried They Will Miss the War: Inside the Mind of West Point's Class of 2009," Newsweek , 6 June:
- [A] parade of costumed cadets trots by: a shark costume, an Uncle Sam getup and three young men in form-fitting bodysuits.
Caricature Builder," Time , 21 Jan.:
- "A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size."