Left vs Departure - What's the difference?
left | departure |
The opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north.
(politics) pertaining to the political left; liberal.
On the left side.
Towards the left side.
The left side or direction.
(politics) The ensemble of left-wing political parties. Those holding left-wing views as a group.
(boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
(leave).
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, title= Remaining.
(Ireland, colloquial) permitted, allowed to proceed.
The act of departing or something that has departed.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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, title= A deviation from a plan or procedure.
* Prescott
(euphemism) A death.
* Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6
* Sir Philip Sidney
(navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
(legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
(obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between left and departure
is that left is the left side or direction while departure is the act of departing or something that has departed.As an adjective left
is the opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north.As an adverb left
is on the left side.As a verb left
is past tense of leave.left
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from (etyl) left, . More at (l), (l).Adjective
- Turn left at the corner.
Synonyms
* left-hand * sinister * sinistralAntonyms
* rightDerived terms
* left-hand * left-handed * left wing * two left feetAdverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The political left is not holding enough power.
Synonyms
* (left side or direction) , port * (politics)Derived terms
* lefty * to the leftEtymology 2
(etyl) left, variant of . More at leave.Verb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
Etymology 3
From a verbal use of . More at leave.Verb
(head)- We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
References
* The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, Walter W. Skeat.Statistics
*departure
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure .}}
- any departure from a national standard
- The time of my departure is at hand.
- His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
- (Bouvier)
- no other remedy but absolute departure
