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Setout vs Departing - What's the difference?

setout | departing |

As nouns the difference between setout and departing

is that setout is an outset while departing is the act by which somebody or something departs.

As a verb departing is

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As an adjective departing is

that is leaving.

setout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an outset
  • (colloquial, dated) a display or spread
  • *1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 8:
  • *:‘You don’t hate Sissy, Tom?’
  • *:‘I hate to be obliged to call her Jupe. And she hates me,’ said Tom, moodily.
  • *:‘No, she does not, Tom, I am sure!’
  • *:‘She must,’ said Tom. ‘She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.

    • See also

    * set out

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    departing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that is leaving
    • a departing train
  • while leaving
    • departing words

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody or something departs.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

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