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Export vs Egress - What's the difference?

export | egress |

As nouns the difference between export and egress

is that export is export (the act of exporting) while egress is an exit or way out.

As a verb egress is

to exit or leave; to go or come out.

export

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of or relating to exportation or exports

    • Noun

    (wikipedia export)
  • (countable) something that is exported
    • Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
  • (uncountable) the act of exporting
    • The export of fish is forbidden in this country.

    Synonyms

    * (the act of exporting ): exportation

    Antonyms

    * (something that is exported ): import * (the act of exporting ): import, importation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to carry away
  • * Francis Bacon
    • [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
  • to sell (goods) to a foreign country
    • Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
  • to cause to spread in another part of the world
  • (computing): to send (data) from one program to another
  • to put up (a child) for international adoption.

    • Synonyms

    * (to carry away ): remove

    Antonyms

    * (to sell (goods) to a foreign country ): import

    Derived terms

    * exportability * exportable * exportation * exporter

    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