depart

depart
[[t]dɪpɑ͟ː(r)t[/t]]
departs, departing, departed
1) VERB When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.

[V from n] Our tour departs from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April...

[V for n] In the morning Mr McDonald departed for Sydney...

[V n] The coach departs Potsdam in the morning for the drive to Leipzig. [Also V]

2) VERB If you depart from a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way.

[V from n] Why is it in this country that we have departed from good educational sense?...

[V from n] It takes a brave cook to depart radically from the traditional Christmas menu.

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3) VERB If someone departs from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone departs a job.

[V from n] Lipton is planning to depart from the company he founded.

...a number of staff departed during his reign as rector of the Royal College of Art...

[V n] He had the good fortune to depart baseball in the '60s at just about that moment when it was becoming tarnished.

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4) VERB When someone departs this life, or departs this earth, they die. [LITERARY]

[V n] He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny.


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  • Depart — De*part , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Departed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Departing}.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. d[ e]partir to divide, distribute, se d[ e]partir to separate one s self, depart; pref. d[ e] (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • départ — DÉPART. s. m. Action de partir. Le jour du départ. Avant son départ. Après son départ. On dit, Etre sur son départ, pour dire, Être près de partir. Avancer, retarder son départ. Ce vaisseau n attend que le vent pour son départ.Départ, en termes… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • Depart — De*part , n. [Cf. F. d[ e]part, fr. d[ e]partir.] 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. A going away;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • depart — I verb abscond, absent oneself, be gone, decamp, desert, deviate, differ, digress, disappear, disassociate, discedere, disengage, disjoin, dissociate, diverge, divorce, emigrate, evacuate, exit, expatriate oneself, fade, flee, forsake, issue… …   Law dictionary

  • depart — mid 13c., part from each other, from O.Fr. departir (10c.) to divide, distribute; separate (oneself), depart; die, from L.L. departire divide (transitive), from DE (Cf. de ) from (see DE (Cf. de )) + partire to part, divide, from pars (gen. par …   Etymology dictionary

  • depart — is now used intransitively (without an object) either without any complement or followed by from (a point of departure) or for (a destination). Its use with an object is restricted to the formal or literary phrase depart this life, meaning ‘to… …   Modern English usage

  • départ — Départ. s. m. Action de partir. Le jour du départ. il estoit sur son départ, c est à dire, Prest à partir. Aprés son départ …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Depart — De*part , v. t. 1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And here… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Départ — Le nom peut être originaire de deux régions : d une part les Landes, de l autre la Marne et l Oise (variante : Départe). Il semble, au moins dans les Landes, qu il s agisse d un toponyme : plusieurs hameaux s appellent (le) Départ dans ce… …   Noms de famille

  • depart — Depart. s. m. Terme de Chymie, qui signifie Separation, dissolution de parties heterogenes. Eau de départ. on a mis cet or au départ pour le separer d avec les autres métaux …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • depart — [dē pärt′, dipärt′] vi. [ME departen < OFr departir < VL departire, to divide, separate, for L dispartire < dis , apart + partire, to divide < pars (see PART2): orig. vt., to divide] 1. to go away (from); leave 2. to set out; start 3 …   English World dictionary

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