departure
/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/ noun B1- The act of departing or something that has departed. · The departure was scheduled for noon.
- A deviation from a plan or procedure. · There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
- A death.
- The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
- The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. · The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
- The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
Plural departures
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This second departure was followed by a long and fearful state of terrified silence on the part of those who were left behind.
After their departure, Fernand, who had now again become the friend and protector of Mercédès, led the girl to her home, while some friends of Dantès conducted his father, nearly lifeless, to the Allées de Meilhan.
On his departure the Farmer grievously lamented the destruction of his sheep and oxen, but his wife, who had been a spectator to all that took place, said, “On my word, you are rightly served, for how could you for a moment think of shutting up a Lion along with you in your farmyard when you know that you shake in your shoes if you only hear his roar at a distance?”
The Bull, on approaching the Lion’s den, saw the huge spits and giant caldrons, and no sign whatever of the sheep, and, without saying a word, quietly took his departure.
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