Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To go away; leave.
- intransitive verb To die.
- intransitive verb To vary, as from a regular course; deviate: synonym: swerve.
- intransitive verb To go away from; leave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
department . - noun Division; separation, as of a compound substance into its elements: as, “water of depart,”
- noun The act of going away; departure.
- noun Death.
- To divide; separate into parts; dispart.
- To separate; sunder; dispart.
- [At the Savoy Conference (1661) the use of the word depart in the marriage service was objected to by the Nonconformist divines. It was therefore changed (in 1662) to do part, us in the present prayer-book.]
- To depart from; quit; leave (by ellipsis of the usual from).
- To share; give or take a part or share.
- To separate into parts; become divided.
- To separate from a place or a person; go a different way; part.
- To go or move away; withdraw, as from a place, a person, etc.
- To deviate; go back or away, as from a course or principle of action, authoritative instructions, etc.; desist.
- In law, to deviate in a subsequent pleading from the title or defense in the previous pleading.
- To die; decease; leave this world.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.
- transitive verb obsolete To divide in order to share; to apportion.
- transitive verb To leave; to depart from.
- noun obsolete Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.
- noun obsolete A going away; departure; hence, death.
- intransitive verb obsolete To part; to divide; to separate.
- intransitive verb To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to
arrive ; -- often withfrom before the place, person, or thing left, andfor orto before the destination. - intransitive verb To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (
from ); not to adhere to; -- withfrom - intransitive verb To pass away; to perish.
- intransitive verb To quit this world; to die.
- intransitive verb [Obs.] to resign; to part with.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
leave ; to set out on a journey. - verb intransitive To
die . - verb intransitive To
deviate (from). - verb transitive To
go away from; toleave . - verb obsolete, transitive To divide up; to
distribute ,share . - verb obsolete, transitive To
separate ,part . - noun obsolete
division ;separation , as ofcompound substances - noun obsolete A going away;
departure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- verb leave
- verb go away or leave
- verb be at variance with; be out of line with
- verb move away from a place into another direction
- verb wander from a direct or straight course
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Since consistency from vintage to vintageis important in assessing the overall potential of the region, cool years must be judged on how much they depart from the ideal vintages.
PALATE 2009: A Multi-Vintage Finger Lakes Cabernet Franc Tasting 2009
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Does one go mad with the realization when your mind finally begins to correlate its contents and you depart from the placid island of ignorance to view not only the black seas of infinity, but the fact that there are violent, highly aggressive, politically powerful, and terrifying mainstream forces literally preparing to bring about the end of the world ...
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All of a sudden, the oil companies were forced to depart from the strategy that had worked so well for them in the past.
Becky Bond: California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Becky Bond 2010
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We were given a script to learn and instructed not to depart from the script.
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All of a sudden, the oil companies were forced to depart from the strategy that had worked so well for them in the past.
Becky Bond: California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Becky Bond 2010
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All of a sudden, the oil companies were forced to depart from the strategy that had worked so well for them in the past.
Becky Bond: California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Becky Bond 2010
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All of a sudden, the oil companies were forced to depart from the strategy that had worked so well for them in the past.
Becky Bond: California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Becky Bond 2010
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All of a sudden, the oil companies were forced to depart from the strategy that had worked so well for them in the past.
Becky Bond: California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Becky Bond 2010
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All of a sudden, the oil companies were forced to depart from the strategy that had worked so well for them in the past.
Becky Bond: California Voters Say Hell No to Texas Oil and Proposition 23 Becky Bond 2010
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The stimulus package is expected to depart from the "dams and bridges" model favored by the Liberal Democratic Party during its nearly 60 years of post-World War II rule.
Japan Plans Stimulus as Export Growth Slows Takashi Nakamichi 2010
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