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departure
English
Etymology
From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??p??(?)tj?(?)/, /d??p??(?)t???(?)/
Noun
departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)
- The act of departing or something that has departed.
- A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- any departure from a national standard
- There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (euphemistic) A death.
- His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
- (navigation) 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.
- (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
- (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
Synonyms
- leaving
Antonyms
- arrival
Related terms
- depart
- departure lounge
- departure tax
Translations
Further reading
- departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- apertured
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asylum
English
Etymology
From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sa?l?m/
Noun
asylum (plural asylums or asyla)
- A place of safety.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Synonyms
- sanctuary
- shelter
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- refugee
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a?sy?.lum/, [ä?s?y??????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a?si.lum/, [??s?i?lum]
Noun
as?lum n (genitive as?l?); second declension
- asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- asylum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asylum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- asylum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asylum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- asylum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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