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Gone vs Vanish - What's the difference?

gone | vanish |

As verbs the difference between gone and vanish

is that gone is while vanish is to become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

As an adjective gone

is away, having left.

As a preposition gone

is (british|informal) past, after, later than (a time).

As a noun vanish is

(phonetics) the brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.

gone

English

Alternative forms

* ywent (obsolete verb form)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * goner

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Away, having left.
    • Are they gone already?
  • (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
    • Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone .
    He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone .
    Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone .
  • No longer existing, having passed.
    • The days of my youth are gone .
  • Used up.
    • I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
  • Dead.
  • (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
    • Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
  • (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
  • (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
    • Six nights gone , your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
    • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles ----

    vanish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished , pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
  • (lb) To become equal to zero.
  • :The function f(x)=x2 vanishes at x=0.

    • Synonyms

    * disappear

    Derived terms

    * vanishing spray

    Noun

    (vanishes)
  • (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
    • a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
    o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
    (Rush)

    See also

    * glide (Webster 1913)