different between departure vs dissolution

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)

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
2. 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.

3. (euphemistic) A death.
   • His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

4. (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.
5. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

6. (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?)

7. (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

English

Etymology

From Old French dissolution, from Latin dissol?ti? (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s??l(j)u???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s??lu??n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

dissolution (countable and uncountable, plural dissolutions)

1. The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.

   Synonym: abolition

   Antonyms: establishment, foundation

2. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
3. Dissolving, or going into solution.
4. The quality of being dissolute.

   Synonym: dissipation

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• “dissolution”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• dissolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin dissol?ti?nem (accusative of dissol?ti?).

Pronunciation

Noun

dissolution f (plural dissolutions)

1. dissolution

Further reading

• “dissolution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).