Departure
noun
The action of leaving a place, often to start a journey.
We watched the plane's departure from the airport terminal.
Often appears as...
- departure time
- departure gate
noun
A change from the usual or expected way of doing things.
The new album is a departure from the band's earlier work.
Often appears as...
- departure from tradition
- departure from the norm
noun
An instance of a person leaving their job or resigning.
His sudden departure left everyone in shock.
Often appears as...
- sudden departure
- early departure
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Colloquial
noun
The distance due east or west made by a ship or aircraft.
The departure was calculated based on the ship's current position.
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Technical
noun
The action of leaving a place, often to start a journey.
We watched the plane's departure from the airport terminal.
Often appears as...
- departure time
- departure gate
noun
A change from the usual or expected way of doing things.
The new album is a departure from the band's earlier work.
Often appears as...
- departure from tradition
- departure from the norm
noun
An instance of a person leaving their job or resigning.
His sudden departure left everyone in shock.
Often appears as...
- sudden departure
- early departure
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
The distance due east or west made by a ship or aircraft.
The departure was calculated based on the ship's current position.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Travel Context
Used to discuss the specifics of journeys, commonly in airports, stations, or travel plans.
Check the departure board for our train's platform number.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Often implies emotions, like excitement for a trip or sadness when someone leaves.
His departure for college was bittersweet.
Pro Tip 3/3Preparations Involved
Implies that planning or preparations were made before leaving a place.
Her departure for Rome required extensive packing.
Pro Tip 1/3Travel Context
Used to discuss the specifics of journeys, commonly in airports, stations, or travel plans.
Check the departure board for our train's platform number.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Often implies emotions, like excitement for a trip or sadness when someone leaves.
His departure for college was bittersweet.
Pro Tip 3/3Preparations Involved
Implies that planning or preparations were made before leaving a place.
Her departure for Rome required extensive packing.
Pro Tip 1/3Travel Context
Used to discuss the specifics of journeys, commonly in airports, stations, or travel plans.
Check the departure board for our train's platform number.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Often implies emotions, like excitement for a trip or sadness when someone leaves.
His departure for college was bittersweet.
Pro Tip 3/3Preparations Involved
Implies that planning or preparations were made before leaving a place.
Her departure for Rome required extensive packing.
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Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...
was a significant departure from the cinematic realism that was popular in animated films at the time. The choice to use limited animation techniques was originally made for budgetary reasons, but it became a signature style that influenced many future generations of animators. In this stylistic approach,
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What makes a hero? -...
that gets the story moving? When her sister's name is called from the lottery. How about assistance? Is anyone going to help her on her adventure? Haymitch. What about departure? Does she leave her ordinary world? She gets on a train to the capital.
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Jedidah Isler: The...
I began my college experience just after my family had fallen apart. Our financial situation disintegrated just after my father's departure from our lives. This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life
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Abraham Verghese: A...
to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss. I'm not sure why you're laughing. That was the original intent, was it not? We signal transitions of power with rituals.
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The Secret World of...
tremors in the floors on the first side of impending departure and finally 12 hours after emerging as an infant below the surface of the pond the flight muscles burst into life and the
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The myth of Icarus and...
in the service of his ego, Icarus was also carried away by his own hubris. In the end, both men paid for their departure from the path of moderation dearly, Icarus with his life
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Jorge Mañes Rubio: What...
and to prepare her departure to the spirit world. Dating back to prehistoric times, Korean shamanism has remained a resilient form of spiritual practice
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First-Time Smuggler PIPE...
departure day the two flunking guys they come to the room with the suitcase they pulled the packages out of the suitcase they laid them on the bed and
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Tackling An Emperor...
they all fall in no motorized sledge can do that this team will be sent to Minnesota in the United States its departure will mark the end of a great
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A journey around the...
park but one day I arrive there one month prior departure and through some different contacts I made this local
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Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...
was a significant departure from the cinematic realism that was popular in animated films at the time. The choice to use limited animation techniques was originally made for budgetary reasons, but it became a signature style that influenced many future generations of animators. In this stylistic approach,
Video examples
What makes a hero? -...
that gets the story moving? When her sister's name is called from the lottery. How about assistance? Is anyone going to help her on her adventure? Haymitch. What about departure? Does she leave her ordinary world? She gets on a train to the capital.
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Jedidah Isler: The...
I began my college experience just after my family had fallen apart. Our financial situation disintegrated just after my father's departure from our lives. This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life
Video examples
Abraham Verghese: A...
to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss. I'm not sure why you're laughing. That was the original intent, was it not? We signal transitions of power with rituals.
Video examples
The Secret World of...
tremors in the floors on the first side of impending departure and finally 12 hours after emerging as an infant below the surface of the pond the flight muscles burst into life and the
Video examples
The myth of Icarus and...
in the service of his ego, Icarus was also carried away by his own hubris. In the end, both men paid for their departure from the path of moderation dearly, Icarus with his life
Video examples
Jorge Mañes Rubio: What...
and to prepare her departure to the spirit world. Dating back to prehistoric times, Korean shamanism has remained a resilient form of spiritual practice
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First-Time Smuggler PIPE...
departure day the two flunking guys they come to the room with the suitcase they pulled the packages out of the suitcase they laid them on the bed and
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Tackling An Emperor...
they all fall in no motorized sledge can do that this team will be sent to Minnesota in the United States its departure will mark the end of a great
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A journey around the...
park but one day I arrive there one month prior departure and through some different contacts I made this local
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Eric Shinseki
American General
It's important in any organization that if visions have any reality at all, it's because the organization believes that the vision is right and that they share in it. Otherwise, it becomes the good idea of one person, and that even more importantly contributes to the sense that it will not survive the departure of that individual.
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Ellen Terry
English Actress
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
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Wadah Khanfar
Palestinian Leader
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Amaury Nolasco
Puerto Rican Actor
These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
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Elihu Root
American Lawyer
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
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Alexander Smith
Scottish Poet
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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Haylie Duff
American Actress
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
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Jon Taffer
American Businessman
Each 'Bar Rescue' is shot in real time. So the complete rescue is 5 days from my arrival to my departure. I do not see or meet anyone in advance.
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Petrarch
Italian Poet
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Peter Bichsel
Swiss Writer
I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
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Eric Shinseki
American General
It's important in any organization that if visions have any reality at all, it's because the organization believes that the vision is right and that they share in it. Otherwise, it becomes the good idea of one person, and that even more importantly contributes to the sense that it will not survive the departure of that individual.
Quote examples
Ellen Terry
English Actress
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Quote examples
Wadah Khanfar
Palestinian Leader
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
Quote examples
Amaury Nolasco
Puerto Rican Actor
These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
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Elihu Root
American Lawyer
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
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Alexander Smith
Scottish Poet
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Quote examples
Haylie Duff
American Actress
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
Quote examples
Jon Taffer
American Businessman
Each 'Bar Rescue' is shot in real time. So the complete rescue is 5 days from my arrival to my departure. I do not see or meet anyone in advance.
Quote examples
Petrarch
Italian Poet
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Peter Bichsel
Swiss Writer
I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
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