different between departure vs refuge

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 refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugi? (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fju?d?/

Noun

refuge (countable and uncountable, plural refuges)

1. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
2. A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
3. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
4. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
5. A refuge island.

Synonyms

• haven
• sanctuary
• zoar

Derived terms

• refugee
• refugium
• refugitive

Translations

Verb

refuge (third-person singular simple present refuges, present participle refuging, simple past and past participle refuged)

1. (intransitive) To return to a place of shelter.
   • 2011, Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Lisa Jones-Engel, Monkeys on the Edge

     Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to protect.

Translations

Anagrams

• Fugere

French

Etymology

From Latin refugium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fy?/

Noun

refuge m (plural refuges)

1. refuge

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

refuge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of refugi?

Old French

Alternative forms

• reffuge
• refiuge
• refuje

Etymology

From Latin refugium.

Noun

refuge m (oblique plural refuges, nominative singular refuges, nominative plural refuge)

1. a refuge
2. (figuratively) a protector or savior

Descendants

• ? English: refuge
• French: refuge