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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It was absolutely necessary, therefore, to think of something; and in this emergency recollecting _when_ she had seen him last in Hertfordshire, and feeling curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty departure, she observed,--
When Elizabeth had rejoiced over Wickham’s departure, she found little other cause for satisfaction in the loss of the regiment.
The day of his and Lydia’s departure soon came; and Mrs.
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?”
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