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Vamoose vs Vanish - What's the difference?

vamoose | vanish |

As verbs the difference between vamoose and vanish

is that vamoose is (slang) to run away, to flee while vanish is to become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

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.

vamoose

English

Verb

(vamoos)
  • (slang) To run away, to flee.
  • (slang) To hurry.
  • (informal) To be expelled
  • Synonyms

    * amscray, beat it, leg it, scarper, scram, skedaddle

    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)