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Outing vs Journey - What's the difference?

outing | journey |

As nouns the difference between outing and journey

is that outing is a pleasure trip or excursion while journey is a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

As verbs the difference between outing and journey

is that outing is present participle of lang=en while journey is to travel, to make a trip or voyage.

outing

English

Noun

(wikipedia outing) (en noun)
  • A pleasure trip or excursion.
  • The practice of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual without that person's consent.
  • An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
  • * 2012 , BBC News: Daniel Radcliffe defends casting as poet Allen Ginsberg [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16652271]:
  • The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.

    Verb

    (head)
  • journey

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
  • (label) A day.
  • (label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • (label) A day's work.
  • *:
  • *:But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)