depart

== English == === Etymology === From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) +‎ partiō (“part, divide”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dĭ-pät', IPA(key): /dɪˈpɑːt/ (General American) enPR: dĭ-pärt', IPA(key): /dɪˈpɑɹt/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t === Verb === depart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed) (intransitive) To leave. (intransitive) To set out on a journey. (intransitive, euphemistic) To die. (intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist. (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform. 1788, James Madison, “Number 39,” in Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist, On the New Constitution, Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818, p. 204,[2] If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible. (transitive) To go away from; to leave. 2009, The Guardian, Sport Blog, 9 September: The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath. (ambitransitive, aviation) To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object) (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part. 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 5, Chapter 26, “Of the shoulders,”[11] The twisted forkes [i.e. fork-shaped bones] be néedfull to binde the shoulders, and to depart them from the breast. ==== Usage notes ==== The past participle, departed, unlike that of the majority of English verbs, has an active, rather than a passive sense when used adjectivally: not even a legible inscription to record its departed greatness (Charles Dickens, American Notes, Chapter 8,[13]) As soon as they had left, Mrs. Gibson began her usual comments on the departed visitors. (Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 16,[14]) the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the departed day (Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 7,[15]) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (to leave): See Thesaurus:leave (to die): See Thesaurus:die (to deviate): deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary (to go away from): leave ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “to leave”): arrive, come, stay (antonym(s) of “to die”): live (antonym(s) of “to deviate”): conform ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== departure dearly departed ==== Translations ==== === Noun === depart (obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances. (obsolete) A going away; departure. === Anagrams === detrap, drapet, parted, petard, prated, rapted, tarped, traped == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French départ. === Noun === depart n (plural departuri) (obsolete) departure ==== Declension ==== === References === depart in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN